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.
The twenty defense companies most visible inside ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews — ranked quarterly by Everything-PR.
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.
