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Source #69

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TitleResearch: Trae Stephens - federal contracts site:usaspending.gov
Original URLhttps://www.usaspending.gov/search/?hash=eyJmaWx0ZXJzIjp7ImtleXdvcmQiOiJUcmFlIFN0ZXBoZW5zIn19
PublicationPublic Record Research
Source typediscovery_scope_note
Date2024
EntityTrae Stephens
Captured2026-04-05T07:39:42.486Z UTC
Hash computed at2026-04-05T07:39:42.486Z UTC
SHA-256b7fba7ffc029e5ae98a8586bb1a701a74486eaece19b32f8532def52862c36d3
Content length632 bytes
Content preview (first 800 chars)
Trae Stephens is a co-founder and Executive Chairman of Anduril Industries, a defense technology company, and a Partner at Founders Fund. While USASpending.gov contains federal contract data, individual executives are not typically listed as contract recipients—contracts are awarded to companies. Anduril Industries, the company Stephens co-founded, has received substantial federal contracts from the Department of Defense and Department of Homeland Security. Direct searches for 'Trae Stephens' on USASpending.gov would not yield results, as the database tracks organizational recipients, not individual founders or executives.

Verifying this receipt

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