Feinberg has unprecedented control over the Pentagon’s vast procurement network, and a remarkable new ability to invest in defense companies with taxpayer dollars, all to remake the so-called industrial base of the military contracting world.
Both his critics and his supporters say Feinberg shredded the old cumbersome rules of government weapons acquisition and seems to have turned the Pentagon into its own private equity powerhouse...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/18/stephen-feinberg-trump-pentagon
