Inside AUSA with Kevin Baron. Anduril and Palantir mobbed. Code Pink crashes Hegseth. The drone revolution is here. F1, Cadillac, and the sports-defense overlap. Plus: Friday Football Picks
The Pentagon is in the middle of a $1.5 trillion gold rush — and most of the country has no idea. Kevin Baron just walked the floor at AUSA, where Anduril and Palantir were mobbed, Code Pink crashed Hegseth, and private capital is flooding into defense tech at a scale he’s never seen in 20 years of covering the building. We go below the radar on what that money is actually buying, who’s cashing in, and why Formula 1, Cadillac, and GM Defense are suddenly part of the same conversation.
Episode 650. Kevin Baron — founder of Elevation Global Strategies, former Defense One executive editor, and one of the sharpest national…
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→ Four things from today’s episodeKevin Baron on AUSA 2026. 40,000 people, 700+ companies, and the most crowded defense expo he’s ever walked
Why Anduril and Palantir had mobs around their booths. and what it says about the new Neo Primes
Code Pink crashing Pete Hegseth’s speech four times, and why. Code Pink crashing Pete Hegseth’s speech four times, and why Hegseth almost never speaks in unscreened rooms
The $1.5 trillion defense budget proposal. and the slush-fund money Congress is being asked to rubber-stamp
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