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2026-04-21
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President Trump's FY2027 budget proposal requests $1.5 trillion for defense—a 42% year-over-year increase and the largest military outlay in modern history. It includes $58.5 billion for AI capabilities and $53.6…
2026-03-13
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The U.S. Army awarded Anduril an enterprise agreement worth up to $20 billion over 10 years in March 2026, consolidating 120+ separate contracts and task orders into a single procurement framework. Anduril's Lattice…
2026-01-01
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The PLEO (Proliferated LEO) program ceiling grew from $900 million to $13 billion, signaling Pentagon views Starshield as critical infrastructure
2025-12-10
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Pentagon CTO Emil Michael, confirmed in May 2025, stated the Pentagon needs 'five more Andurils and Palantirs and SpaceXs' to compete with traditional defense primes, signalling a systematic shift toward 'neo-prime'…
2025-12-09
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The Pentagon launched GenAI.mil, a secure generative AI platform, on December 9, 2025. It debuted with Google Cloud's Gemini for Government and is accessible to all 3 million military, civilian, and contractor…
2025-12-03
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The Pentagon Inspector General found in December 2025 that Secretary Hegseth endangered U.S. troops by sharing classified information about Yemen strike plans (targets, timing, weapons) via a Signal group chat that…
2025-09-05
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President Trump signed an executive order on September 5, 2025, rebranding the Department of Defense as the 'Department of War.' Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth adopted the title 'Secretary of War.' The name change was…
2025-07-31
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The U.S. Army consolidated 75 separate Palantir contracts into a single enterprise agreement (Contract W519TC25D0039) in July 2025, with a ceiling value of up to $10 billion over 10 years. The agreement does not commit…
2025-07-21
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Between 2020 and 2024, $771 billion in Pentagon contracts went to just five firms: Lockheed Martin ($313 billion), RTX/Raytheon ($145 billion), Boeing ($115 billion), General Dynamics ($116 billion), and Northrop…
2025-07-04
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The FY2025 Pentagon budget was approximately $850 billion. Congress passed a reconciliation bill in July 2025 adding $150+ billion in mandatory defense spending, pushing total national defense spending beyond $1…
2025-05-01
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Palantir secured $1.3 billion contract with DOD running through 2029 for Project Maven AI tool
2025-04-11
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Secretary Hegseth cancelled $5.1 billion in IT and consulting contracts (including Accenture and Deloitte) in April 2025, reallocating funds toward military readiness, and ordered an 8% annual budget cut over five…
2025-03-09
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In March 2025, Deputy Secretary of Defense Steve Feinberg designated Maven as an official 'program of record,' ensuring long-term funding and Army-led oversight. The Pentagon increased the Maven contract ceiling to…
2025-02-21
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth fired 24+ generals and admirals since January 2025, including Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff CQ Brown (February 2025) and DIA Director Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Kruse (August 2025). The…
2024-11-15
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The Pentagon has failed every single one of its seven consecutive annual audits (2018–2024), with 1,600 auditors unable to account for $4 trillion in assets spread across 50 states and 4,500 locations. The fiscal year…
2024-10-29
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The Pentagon's Proliferated Low Earth Orbit (PLEO) Satellite-Based Services program ceiling grew from $900 million to $13 billion in October 2024. Most task orders have been for SpaceX's Starshield, the militarized…
2024-07-21
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U.S. Department of Defense has awarded Palantir at least $1.65 billion over 16.5 years, representing 87% of tracked obligations
2022-10-19
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Congressional testimony requirements have increased over the past two decades, with at least 30 statutory testimony requirements currently in law
2017-04-26
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Project Maven was established by a Pentagon memo on April 26, 2017, as the Algorithmic Warfare Cross-Functional Team. It has since evolved into the Maven Smart System—Palantir's AI-powered platform described as the…
2008-01-01
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The umbrella U.S. Department of Defense has awarded Palantir at least $1.65 billion over 16.5 years, representing the highest amount of any agency
1956-01-01
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As of 1956, the U.S. Department of Defense estimated that 90% of its classified documents could be publicly disclosed with no harm to national security
1947-07-26
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The National Security Act of 1947, signed July 26, 1947, created the 'National Military Establishment,' which was renamed the Department of Defense on August 10, 1949. The Pentagon building in Arlington, Virginia…
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