DOD
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At the time, DOD controlled about 80 percent of the intelligence community’s budget, all of it highly classified, amounting to an estimated $30 billion.
From Slate • Jun. 15, 2026
Africa Command didn’t identify the missing members, but the DOD official said initial next-of-kin notifications had occurred.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 3, 2026
Late last month, the DOD also agreed to provide $36 million of funding to Trilogy Metals to support its development of copper-polymetallic mines in Alaska.
From Barron's • Nov. 5, 2025
Written by David Vergun of DOD News and originally published on Feb. 9, 2021, the article recently disappeared from the website.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2025
Okay, let’s concede that you can reliably tell Coke from Pepsi, even when the DOD hovers around 4.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
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