While almost all the intellectual energy in the American military establishment is focused on the end of the FY potlatch of spending before fiscal year 2024 kicks off in under three weeks, it's time for EagleOne and Sal to take a deep breath and take a look around the national security waterfront.

For the first third of the show we discuss DEPSECDEF Hick's "Replicator" project and some of the issues around it, and then regular guest Mark Vandroff calls in the show and we take the conversation on from there, eventually winding up what is more valuable than all the technology you can buy - the supply chains that enable it and the people who put it together.

Showlinks:

• Sal’s overview of “Replicator.”
• Navy’s “Disruptive Capabilities Office.”
• Tom Clancy’s “Red Storm Rising” Dance of the Vampires video.
• BuildSubmarines.com commercial.
• BuildSubmarines.com job list.
• Fincantieri careers.