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Industrials

Spacecraft-Maker Firefly Shoots for the Moon in Nasdaq Debut

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Just a week after Figma’s successful market debut, Firefly Aerospace saw its stock pop more than 34% after listing on the Nasdaq on Thursday.

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Artificial Intelligence

Palantir Rides Epic Hot Streak Into Earnings Report

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

Photo by Kaszynzki, Lockheed Martin via CC BY 2.0

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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Industries

Defense Startups Are Riding High

Military tech startups are seeing a big boost in their valuations of late, spurred in part by former President Trump’s re-election.

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Policy & Power

Lockheed Martin Predicts a Slow Year Despite Recent Ukraine Deals

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Geopolitics

Raytheon Will Move Its HQ to the DC Metro Area

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Policy & Power

Pentagon Says Arms Industry Mergers Pose “National Security Risk”

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Patent Drop

Lockheed Martin Lands the Aircraft (plus more from Ford & Nvidia)

Self-landing military planes, cars that don’t stink, and live inside photos

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