The story of Marine Colonel Drew Cukor and Project Maven reveals how Pentagon bureaucracy and anonymous IG complaints targeted an officer who revolutionized U.S. military AI — and how DoD culture punishes innovation over process.
Monica Reza, who held the patent to a unique "super-alloy" used in rockets which was funded by a McCasland-led Air Force lab, went missing without a trace while on a hike in Los Angeles in June 2025....
No one would ever accuse the John F. Kennedy Library of a being a rational body, or of awarding their Profile in Courage awards to anyone being all that courageous....