https://theintercept.com/2026/02/06/pentagon-israel-cluster-munitions-weapons-sale/

https://theintercept.com/2026/02/06/pentagon-israel-cluster-munitions-weapons-sale/

The DOD has awarded a no bid, solo source contract to an #Israeli military contractor for $200 million to buy cluster bombs.

#Clusterbombs. Y’all remember me saying that #Palestine was being used as a marketing test bed for military contractors? These cluster bombs are the ones the #IDF unleashed in #Gaza, #Lebanon and #Syria.

The DOD awarded the contract without public competition under a “public interest” exception to federal contracting law, using recent amendments that loosened rules for awarding no-bid defense contracts involving Ukraine, Taiwan, and Israel.

“I found this to be rather unusual,” said Julia Gledhill, a military contracting researcher for the Stimson Center, a Washington-based foreign policy think tank. “I have not seen something like this before — a sole source contract to a foreign military contractor for $200 million.”