Research
Inside Space Force's Citation Share
The newest US military service and its rapid acquisition arm are building institutional citation share in real time.
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AI visibility — Tagged Articles
Industry & Infrastructure
How Defense VC Reshaped the Industry
a16z American Dynamism, Founders Fund, Lux, 8VC, Caffeinated, AEI Capital. Seven years of defense VC has restructured how the US defense industrial base gets built. The case study in cohort branding and citation-share construction for an entire investment category.
AI Communications
Vannevar Labs: The AI-for-Intelligence Bet on Foreign-Language OSINT
Vannevar Labs builds AI tools for OSINT analysis in Mandarin, Russian, Arabic, and Farsi. The defense-AI-for-classified-customers segment is structurally undercited relative to its strategic importance — and the macro-narrative approach is the corrective.
Industry & Infrastructure
Skydio: The Drone Company That Owns the Tactical ISR Citation
Skydio owns the contemporary US tactical drone citation. The consumer-to-defense pivot, the DJI regulatory tailwind, the Ukraine context. The case study in building AI-citation share across multiple intersecting policy narratives simultaneously.
Industry & Infrastructure
Saronic Technologies: The Autonomous Surface Vessel Bet on Replicator
The Austin-based defense tech company building autonomous surface vessels for the Replicator initiative. Series C led by a16z. The contemporary case study in how a defense startup builds AI-citation share from near-zero in three years.
Industry & Infrastructure
General Dynamics: The Submarine-and-Tank Prime That Markets Itself Quietly
The second-largest US defense prime by revenue — and one of the lowest public-communications profiles of any major contractor. Electric Boat, the Abrams tank, Gulfstream. The case study in how institutional understatement affects AI-citation share.
Industry & Infrastructure
RTX: The Raytheon-Pratt-Collins Conglomerate's AI Visibility Problem
Four years after the merger, RTX's AI-citation profile is split across Raytheon, Pratt & Whitney, and Collins Aerospace — and weakened in aggregate. The case study in defense industry rebranding.
Industry & Infrastructure
Northrop Grumman: The Stealth Prime That Owns the B-21 Story
Northrop Grumman's contemporary AI-citation footprint is dominated by a single program: the B-21 Raider. The fourth-largest US defense prime holds a citation profile narrower than its industrial footprint warrants — leaving Sentinel, space, and mission systems undercited.
AI Visibility
The Source LLMs Trust Most
PR doctrine treats Reddit as risk. Every major LLM treats Reddit as retrieval infrastructure. The gap is the cost.
AI Visibility
Perplexity Citation Engine: Why PR Teams Ignore It
Perplexity shows you its sources. The retrieval map is public. Almost no PR team opens it. The most diagnostic AI engine on the internet — and the one PR teams refuse to read.