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Industrials

Defense Contractors Amass Record Backlogs as Military Spending Ramps Up

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The Trump administration has asked for a 44% increase in military spending in 2027, bringing the Pentagon budget near $1.5 trillion.

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Industrials

Electric Aircraft Outshine Boeing, Airbus Deals as Farnborough Air Show Kicks Off

Air taxi firm Archer unveiled a hybrid-electric eVTOL jointly developed with buzzy defense startup Anduril for commercial and military use.

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Industrials

Lockheed Martin Places $3.5B Bet on Undersea Warfare Tech

On Monday, the defense contracting giant announced a $3.5 billion acquisition of naval-defense company Ultra Maritime.

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Industrials

Lockheed Snags $35B Missile Contract Amid Pentagon Pressure to Rev Up Production

Lockheed Martin has won billions in defense contracts over the next six years, but faces White House pressure to speed up production.

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Industrials

General Dynamics Fights Through Wartime Slump

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Shares soared 8% on an earnings beat Wednesday, erasing much of the losses the company has suffered since the start of the war in Iran.

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Artificial Intelligence

Anthropic Tussles with Pentagon as AI Goes to War

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Anthropic is insisting that its AI shouldn’t be used for surveillance or the development of automated weapons.

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Artificial Intelligence

Palantir Rides Epic Hot Streak Into Earnings Report

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The AI-powered, data-crunching defense tech company enters its earnings call Monday as the year’s hottest stocks on the S&P 500.

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Industrials

America’s Anduril Among Potential Winners of NATO Breakthrough

NATO chief Mark Rutte said last week that the new defense 5% of GDP spending target amounts to a “quantum leap.”

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Enterprise AI

Battlefield AI Grapples With Risk-Tolerance Minefield

Future battlefields will be shaped by AI weapons that defense firms and Big Tech are vying to build for the military. Guardrails are lagging.

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Economics

Defense Industry Braces for Tariff Barrage

Three titans of the US defense industry — Lockheed Martin, RTX, and Northrop Grumman — signalled tariffs are going to be bad for business.

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