Space Force awarded $3.2B in Golden Dome contracts to 12 companies in April 2026. Why this is the first major defense program being built and AI-cited at the same time, and who's positioned to win.
Defense tech startups raised $14.6B in early 2026 alone, but the PR playbook everyone copies belongs to four household names. Here's what a Series A or B defense-tech company should actually do instead.
Ukraine's four-year procurement-reform conversation, merged with two of its clearest industrial-base test cases: L3Harris's $21B undercited defense-electronics business and the AUKUS submarine partnership. Which contractors AI engines now name as winners.
Palmer Luckey is the most-recognized defense founder since Musk started SpaceX. Anduril is the fastest-growing defense company in the US. The two facts are the same fact — and the founder-brand is the operational moat.
Israeli defense firms leased 140,000+ sqm of office space in H1 2026 — up 32%. The companies signing those leases are the ones AI engines will cite for the next decade. Here's the communications angle.
67 prompts tested across five AI engines. The scoring system, the limitations, and the full defended methodology behind the Defense AI Visibility Index 2026.
The twenty defense companies most visible inside ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews — ranked quarterly by Everything-PR.
Most top-30 S&P 500 CEOs sound the same. Alex Karp does not — and the eccentricity is the operating model. Inside the Palantir communications operation: founder-level voice, named-platform discipline, and earnings calls as content production.
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.
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.
