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for Arleigh Burke-class destroyers."},{"ai_confidence":0.98,"created_at":"2026-04-25T20:33:33.267338","entity":"Space Exploration Technologies Corp.","event_type":"financial","id":"691f89ed-52eb-4ac8-aafa-d95ec9437256","impact":"medium","pub_date":"2026-04-22","source_url":"https://www.war.gov/News/Contracts/Contract/Article/4467057/contracts-for-april-22-2026/","summary":"SpaceX was awarded a $57.3 million contract for Link-182 Space-to-Space Comms System Development and Demonstrations."},{"ai_confidence":0.98,"created_at":"2026-04-25T20:33:33.267329","entity":"Northrop Grumman Systems Corp.","event_type":"financial","id":"e71853fc-9c96-4c87-8016-d4defc74d0fc","impact":"medium","pub_date":"2026-04-22","source_url":"https://www.war.gov/News/Contracts/Contract/Article/4467057/contracts-for-april-22-2026/","summary":"Northrop Grumman received a $207.8 million modification for an additional year of contractor logistics support services."},{"ai_confidence":0.98,"created_at":"2026-04-25T20:33:33.267321","entity":"General Dynamics Electric Boat Corp.","event_type":"financial","id":"f9fdb4a5-7296-420e-a5fd-84e9975042df","impact":"medium","pub_date":"2026-04-23","source_url":"https://www.war.gov/News/Contracts/Contract/Article/4468224/contracts-for-april-23-2026/","summary":"General Dynamics Electric Boat Corp. was awarded a $196.5 million contract for engineering and design support."},{"ai_confidence":0.98,"created_at":"2026-04-25T20:33:33.267313","entity":"RTX Corp.","event_type":"financial","id":"23f759c7-a318-40a2-bc4b-b51760827240","impact":"high","pub_date":"2026-04-23","source_url":"https://www.war.gov/News/Contracts/Contract/Article/4468224/contracts-for-april-23-2026/","summary":"RTX Corp. was awarded a $369.8 million modification for Lot 21 F135 Propulsion Systems and long lead time materials for F-35 customers."},{"ai_confidence":0.95,"created_at":"2026-04-25T20:33:33.267305","entity":"All American Contracting Solutions, Dakota Plains Electrical Engineering and RCS Construction JV, LaCreek Development Corp., OK2 Construction, QSJV","event_type":"financial","id":"897bcbdf-e0ba-43ba-bdcb-330d4d6414e3","impact":"medium","pub_date":"2026-04-21","source_url":"https://www.war.gov/News/Contracts/Contract/Article/4466064/contracts-for-april-21-2026/","summary":"A joint venture and other companies were awarded a ceiling $190 million modification for construction services."},{"ai_confidence":0.98,"created_at":"2026-04-25T20:33:33.267296","entity":"Lockheed Martin Corp., Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co.","event_type":"financial","id":"21e21800-7317-477b-9d35-d681e8f4585d","impact":"medium","pub_date":"2026-04-21","source_url":"https://www.war.gov/News/Contracts/Contract/Article/4466064/contracts-for-april-21-2026/","summary":"Lockheed Martin received a $70.1 million modification for F-35 integration efforts for the government of Romania."},{"ai_confidence":0.98,"created_at":"2026-04-25T20:33:33.267279","entity":"IOTAI Inc.","event_type":"financial","id":"bd51cf03-7fbd-43c7-89bd-d5c5f2299816","impact":"medium","pub_date":"2026-04-17","source_url":"https://www.war.gov/News/Contracts/Contract/Article/4459883/contracts-for-april-17-2026/","summary":"IOTAI Inc. was awarded a $15.52 million contract for Advanced Electronic Warfare-Intelligence Surveillance Reconnaissance."},{"ai_confidence":0.98,"created_at":"2026-04-25T20:33:33.267268","entity":"Lockheed Martin Corp., Rotary and Mission Systems","event_type":"financial","id":"58564923-5acd-4070-8d5f-ca320f551d4a","impact":"medium","pub_date":"2026-04-17","source_url":"https://www.war.gov/News/Contracts/Contract/Article/4459883/contracts-for-april-17-2026/","summary":"Lockheed Martin received a $30 million modification for continued support of Navy Radiant Mercury (RADMERC) operations."},{"ai_confidence":0.85,"created_at":"2026-04-25T20:33:33.267255","entity":"Foundation Future Industries","event_type":"financial","id":"1f67d451-af85-437c-8366-56971a9073df","impact":"medium","pub_date":"2026-04-01","source_url":"https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/eric-trump-backed-robot-startup-lands-24m-pentagon-deal-compete-china","summary":"Foundation Future Industries secured a $24 million Pentagon contract to test its \"Phantom\" humanoid robots for battlefield use."},{"ai_confidence":0.95,"created_at":"2026-04-25T20:33:33.267241","entity":"RTX","event_type":"financial","id":"d8733058-4190-43b3-bbe9-29c6bba84aea","impact":"high","pub_date":"2026-04-30","source_url":"https://fed-spend.com/blog/largest-federal-contract-awards-april-2026","summary":"RTX secured a $3.7 billion contract for Patriot Guided Enhanced Missile (GEM-T) interceptors, primarily for Ukraine's air defense."},{"ai_confidence":0.95,"created_at":"2026-04-25T20:33:33.267149","entity":"Pentagon","event_type":"financial","id":"a883856f-fe5c-4de3-aac7-269fc0f8ac16","impact":"high","pub_date":"2026-04-30","source_url":"https://fed-spend.com/blog/largest-federal-contract-awards-april-2026","summary":"Federal contract awards reached $53 billion in April 2026, doubling March's $28 billion, with the Pentagon leading spending."},{"ai_confidence":0.85,"created_at":"2026-04-25T20:33:33.266338","entity":"Infleqtion","event_type":"financial","id":"89df22ff-4952-4655-8c0a-c84849a17eec","impact":"medium","pub_date":"2026-04-01","source_url":"https://www.quantumcomputingreport.com/news/infleqtion-awarded-2-million-darpa-contract-for-heterogeneous-quantum-software/","summary":"Infleqtion secured a $2 million DARPA contract to develop Multistaq, a software platform for heterogeneous quantum architectures."},{"ai_confidence":0.95,"created_at":"2026-04-24T20:16:01.418665","entity":"Anduril","event_type":"financial","id":"c84246d4-62f4-491a-ba3f-8dd5932ddecc","impact":"high","pub_date":"2026-03-23","source_url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tqs_HAj5fzY","summary":"Tech innovator Anduril secured a $20 billion AI contract from the US Army."},{"ai_confidence":0.98,"created_at":"2026-04-24T20:16:01.418655","entity":"Palantir","event_type":"financial","id":"6eee4a1d-8c85-493a-8c29-7ebdab114b8b","impact":"high","pub_date":"2025-08-01","source_url":"https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/01/palantir_us_army_contract/","summary":"Palantir was awarded a $10 billion, 10-year enterprise purchase deal by the US Army, consolidating dozens of contracts."},{"ai_confidence":0.95,"created_at":"2026-04-24T20:16:01.418620","entity":"OpenAI","event_type":"financial","id":"3cabbe68-cabd-4b2e-bace-db2c286f7668","impact":"high","pub_date":"2025-06-23","source_url":"https://breakingdefense.com/2025/06/openai-for-government-launches-with-200m-win-from-pentagon-cdao/","summary":"OpenAI won a Pentagon contract worth up to $200 million to develop prototype frontier AI for the Defense Department."},{"ai_confidence":0.9,"created_at":"2026-04-24T20:16:01.418580","entity":"SpaceX","event_type":"financial","id":"295d7ec7-79a9-441f-baf4-d0d93d58796e","impact":"medium","pub_date":"2026-04-01","source_url":"https://www.executivebiz.com/category/contract-awards","summary":"SpaceX secured a $57.3 million contract from the U.S. Air Force for Link-182 space-to-space communications system support."},{"ai_confidence":1.0,"created_at":"2026-04-23T20:09:35.722622","entity":"Microsoft, Amazon, Department of Defense (DoD)","event_type":"financial","id":"fc737aef-e983-48bc-8056-a43b7facb23f","impact":"high","pub_date":"2019-10-26","source_url":"https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/surprised-says-amazon-as-pentagon-awards-10-billion-cloud-computing-deal-to-microsoft-2122902","summary":"The Pentagon awarded the controversial $10 billion JEDI cloud computing contract to Microsoft, bypassing Amazon's bid."},{"ai_confidence":1.0,"created_at":"2026-04-23T20:09:35.722615","entity":"CSRA, General Dynamics, Department of Defense (DoD)","event_type":"financial","id":"ffe336aa-6538-47eb-bd4b-25f8837119af","impact":"high","pub_date":"2019-08-29","source_url":"https://www.federaltimes.com/it-networks/cloud/2019/08/29/pentagon-awards-multibillion-dollar-cloud-contract-no-not-that-one/","summary":"The Pentagon awarded a 10-year, $7.6 billion Defense Enterprise Office Solutions (DEOS) cloud contract to CSRA, a General Dynamics company."},{"ai_confidence":1.0,"created_at":"2026-04-23T20:09:35.722607","entity":"Department of Defense (DoD), Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA)","event_type":"announcement","id":"3c434879-b986-4013-a859-2a8485963d7b","impact":"high","pub_date":"2020-12-14","source_url":"https://federalnewsnetwork.com/defense-main/2020/12/pentagon-lays-out-final-details-in-11-2b-plan-to-consolidate-it-networks/","summary":"The DoD's DISA released the final solicitation for the $11.2 billion Defense Enclave Services (DES) contract to unify IT networks."},{"ai_confidence":0.9,"created_at":"2026-04-23T20:09:35.722600","entity":"Space Force","event_type":"financial","id":"68a72c62-0882-40ab-83e1-b903fade9f31","impact":"high","pub_date":"2026-04-22","source_url":"https://insidedefense.com/insider","summary":"The Space Force's fiscal year 2027 budget request includes $19.1 billion in procurement, its largest ever budget."},{"ai_confidence":0.9,"created_at":"2026-04-23T20:09:35.722592","entity":"Erich Hernandez-Baquero","event_type":"leadership","id":"e71372a6-b9b0-4c80-9fec-028236ff7c9a","impact":"medium","pub_date":"2026-04-22","source_url":"https://insidedefense.com/insider","summary":"Raytheon executive Erich Hernandez-Baquero was nominated by President Trump to be Air Force assistant secretary for space acquisition and integration."},{"ai_confidence":0.9,"created_at":"2026-04-23T20:09:35.722584","entity":"Department of Defense (DoD)","event_type":"financial","id":"4b1c9b03-faf9-493c-9ede-6b520eb99dd9","impact":"medium","pub_date":"2026-04-22","source_url":"https://fedscoop.com/pentagon-awards-100m-to-accelerate-innovative-tech-adoption-from-nontraditional-contractors/","summary":"The Department of Defense allocated $100 million through its APFIT pilot program to 10 startups to accelerate innovative tech adoption."},{"ai_confidence":1.0,"created_at":"2026-04-23T20:09:35.722576","entity":"Pratt & Whitney","event_type":"financial","id":"bddf601a-60eb-4ca4-98c8-f868238d5395","impact":"high","pub_date":"2025-11-12","source_url":"https://www.war.gov/News/Contracts/Contract/Article/4330640/","summary":"Pratt & Whitney, a division of RTX Corp., was awarded an estimated $1.09 billion contract for F100 engine parts and program management services."},{"ai_confidence":1.0,"created_at":"2026-04-23T20:09:35.722567","entity":"ASRC Federal Facilities Logistics LLC","event_type":"financial","id":"9e771d27-aea8-4e7c-ba22-4517dd96096f","impact":"high","pub_date":"2025-10-15","source_url":"https://www.war.gov/News/Contracts/Contract/Article/4330640/","summary":"ASRC Federal Facilities Logistics LLC was awarded a maximum $1.17 billion firm-fixed-price contract for third generation chemicals, petroleum, oils, and lubricants."},{"ai_confidence":1.0,"created_at":"2026-04-23T20:09:35.722560","entity":"Salesforce","event_type":"financial","id":"d2a059bc-1a89-48f8-8383-79a3b5222df4","impact":"high","pub_date":"2026-01-26","source_url":"https://defensescoop.com/2026/01/26/salesforce-army-contract-data-analytics-cloud-agentic-ai/","summary":"Salesforce, through its subsidiary Computable Insights LLC, secured an Army IDIQ contract worth up to $5.6 billion for data analytics and AI deployments."},{"ai_confidence":1.0,"created_at":"2026-04-23T20:09:35.722552","entity":"Boeing","event_type":"financial","id":"7d8c0cc9-7c43-4bea-8ec8-00c637a54ec6","impact":"high","pub_date":"2025-11-25","source_url":"https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/pentagon-says-boeing-awarded-more-than-7-billion-military-contracts-2025-11-25/","summary":"Boeing was awarded over $7 billion in two military contracts, including a nearly $4.7 billion Army contract for Apache AH-64E attack 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DARPA","event_type":"financial","id":"d7cde382-070e-4755-94b8-9f673cddb05b","impact":"high","pub_date":"2000-01-24","source_url":"https://insidedefense.com/inside-army/army-darpa-will-spend-more-500-million-fcs-over-six-years","summary":"The Army and DARPA agreed to spend over $500 million over six years to develop the Future Combat System (FCS), with initial contract awards planned for March."},{"ai_confidence":0.9,"created_at":"2026-04-23T20:09:35.722433","entity":"Department of War (DoW)","event_type":"announcement","id":"70ef65dd-e276-46be-8940-768e3baf86c0","impact":"high","pub_date":"2026-04-22","source_url":"https://www.rosefinancial.com/the-pentagon-s-cto-just-told-you-exactly-what-dow-wants-are-you-listening","summary":"Under Secretary Emil Michael announced the Department of War's shift towards procuring mass-producible, low-cost items over expensive, decade-long projects."},{"ai_confidence":0.9,"created_at":"2026-04-23T20:09:35.722425","entity":"U.S. Coast 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