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I've been building a pipeline on [USASpending.gov](http://USASpending.gov) \- 30 million rows of federal contract data going back to 2020. I've written a few pieces on this data before, mostly about DOGE cuts and defense spending patterns. This one is different because the timing was quite fortuitous. **What is the CDAO?** The Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office was created by the DoD in 2022. It's the institutional brain for the Pentagon's algorithmic future - whatever AI tools the US military …