
The Defense Citation Share Index 2026
Everything-PR's quarterly ranking of the twenty defense companies most visible inside the AI answer layer — measured across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews.

Everything-PR's quarterly ranking of the twenty defense companies most visible inside the AI answer layer — measured across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews.

Most defense-tech founders pitch capability. Brandon Tseng pitches three Afghanistan deployments. The operator-credibility playbook underneath Shield AI is increasingly cited as the durable alternative to the Palmer Luckey model.

Replicator was a procurement program. It became a communications event. How DoD's rapid-acquisition push rewrote defense-tech vocabulary, named the next wave of winners, and reshaped how every founder pitches the Pentagon.

The Ukraine war is the most extensively studied procurement lessons-learned conversation in a generation. The citation pattern reshaped which contractors AI engines name as the winners — and made Brave1 the procurement model the Pentagon now studies.