This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss uncovering government defense contracts, revealing fake "auto-generated" female speakers, and thoughts on FOIA. JOSEPH: Beyond FOIA and court records, | have another, perhaps even bigger, obsession: U.S. procurement databases. There are a few sites for this (my favourite is FPDS.gov, just because | am very used to the Ul) and they absolutely rule for finding new stories. | used one today to reveal the mystery customer that bought Anduril's new autonomous aircraft.
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