Capture lane

Military-Industrial Complex

The Military-Industrial Complex capture lane traces 367 verified events documenting this mechanism of institutional capture.

367 events From Dec 22, 1807 To Jun 17, 2026 Open in filter view →
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DateEventLanesStatus
2025-09-23Hegseth Terminates 74-Year-Old Women's Military Advisory Committee, Citing 'Divisive Feminist Agenda' 2 src
Pete Hegseth · U.S. Department of Defense
reported
2025-09-16Navy Seeks 2,400 Housing Units for Guam Military Buildup as Costs Squeeze Local Residents 3 src
U.S. Navy · U.S. Department of Defense
confirmed
2025-09-09ICE Awards $9.2 Million Facial Recognition Contract to Clearview AI 2 src
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Clearview AI · Trump Administration
confirmed
2025-09-05Trump Signs Executive Order Renaming Pentagon as 'Department of War' 3 src
Trump · Pete Hegseth · U.S. Department of Defense
confirmed
2025-09-02ICE Reactivates $2M Paragon Spyware Contract for WhatsApp, Signal Encryption Breaking 2 src
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · WhatsApp
confirmed
2025-09-02US Military Conducts "Double Tap" Strike on Caribbean Vessel, Killing 11 Including Shipwrecked Survivors 4 src
Pete Hegseth · Donald Trump · Angus King
reported
2025-08-29DOJ Loosens Requirements to Deploy ~600 Military JAG Officers as Immigration Judges 3 src
Department of Justice · Trump · U.S. Military
reported
2025-08-26Commerce Secretary Lutnick Discloses Trump Considering Equity Stakes in Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Palantir 3 src
Howard Lutnick · Trump · Lockheed Martin · Boeing · +1
reported
2025-08-25Trump Signs Executive Order Creating Specialized DC National Guard Unit Deputized to Enforce Federal Law and Standing Nationwide Quick Reaction Force
Donald Trump · Pete Hegseth · Stephen Miller · D.C. National Guard
confirmed
2025-08-14Florida opens "Deportation Depot" at Baker prison after Alligator Alcatraz court defeat 3 src
Ron DeSantis · Kristi Noem · U.S. Department of Homeland Security
confirmed
2025-08-07Senator Ossoff documents 510 credible reports of ICE detention abuse including child mistreatment 3 src
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · U.S. Department of Homeland Security
confirmed
2025-08-02TRAC: ICE arrests drop to ~990 per day in July 2025 4 src
ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · U.S. Customs and Border Protection · Stephen Miller
confirmed
2025-08-01ICE detention deaths reach 14 in FY2025 amid reports of medical neglect and overcrowding 3 src
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · CoreCivic · GEO Group · U.S. Department of Homeland Security
confirmed
2025-08-01U.S. Army Awards Palantir $10 Billion AI-Driven Software Contract 3 src
U.S. Army · Palantir Technologies · U.S. Department of Defense · Donald Trump
confirmed
2025-07-25Trump Administration Accepts Qatar's Luxury Jet, Uses Missile Program Funds for Retrofit 3 src
Donald Trump · Pete Hegseth
confirmed
2025-07-18Army Issues $1.24B WEXMAC Task Order to Acquisition Logistics for Fort Bliss Soft-Sided Detention Facility 4 src
Acquisition Logistics LLC · U.S. Army
confirmed
2025-07-17Thiel's Founders Fund Leads $260M Round for Hadrian Defense Manufacturing Startup 2 src
Founders Fund · Peter Thiel · Lux Capital · Andreessen Horowitz
confirmed
2025-07-15Pentagon Awards $295 Million Guam Defense Contract as Military Buildup Strains Local Housing Market 2 src
U.S. Department of Defense
confirmed
2025-07-07Bovino Leads Military-Style Raid on MacArthur Park as Children Flee, Defies Mayor Bass 5 src
Gregory Bovino · U.S. Customs and Border Protection · DHS (Department of Homeland Security)
confirmed
2025-07-01Florida opens "Alligator Alcatraz" tent detention camp in Everglades at $450 million annual cost 4 src
Ron DeSantis · Donald Trump · Center for Biological Diversity
confirmed
2025-06-24Bernie Sanders Returns to Joe Rogan, Warns of Trump Authoritarianism and Media Intimidation - Contributes to Rogan's Subsequent Trump Criticism 2 src
Bernie Sanders · Joe Rogan · Donald Trump · Elon Musk
confirmed
2025-06-24Trump Brokers Israel-Iran Ceasefire Ending Twelve-Day War 3 src
Donald Trump · J.D. Vance · Benjamin Netanyahu · Qatar
confirmed
2025-06-22US Launches 'Operation Midnight Hammer' Strikes on Iran's Fordow and Natanz Nuclear Facilities 3 src
Donald Trump · U.S. Air Force · U.S. Navy · Rafael Grossi
confirmed
2025-06-17Pentagon Transfers Greenland from European Command to Northern Command 2 src
Donald Trump · Pentagon
confirmed
2025-06-13Israel Launches Operation Rising Lion: Major Strikes on Iran's Nuclear Facilities 11 src
Israeli Defense Forces · Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps · Benjamin Netanyahu
confirmed
2025-06-13Israel's 'Operation Red Wedding' Kills 30 Iranian Generals in Coordinated Decapitation Strike 2 src
Israeli Defense Forces · Mossad · Benjamin Netanyahu · Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps
confirmed
2025-06-12Israel Conducts Major Strikes on Iran Nuclear Infrastructure 3 src
Israeli Defense Forces · Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps · U.S. Military
confirmed
2025-06-07Bovino's Home Depot Immigration Raid Standoff Triggers Trump's National Guard Deployment in LA 4 src
Gregory Bovino · Donald Trump · Kristi Noem · California National Guard · +1
confirmed
2025-06-05Anduril Raises $2.5 Billion at $30.5 Billion Valuation, Led by Founders Fund 2 src
Anduril Industries · Peter Thiel · Founders Fund · Palmer Luckey · +2
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2025-06-05Anduril Reaches $30+ Billion Valuation, Becoming Most Valuable Private Defense Startup in History 1 src
Anduril Industries · Palmer Luckey · Founders Fund · Peter Thiel
confirmed
2025-05-01Operation At Large launches with 5,000 federal agents and 21,000 National Guard proposed deployment 3 src
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · National Guard · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · Kristi Noem · +2
confirmed
2025-04-25Pentagon Prepared and Then Canceled Classified Briefing for Musk on China War Plans 3 src
Donald Trump · Elon Musk · Pete Hegseth
confirmed
2025-04-22Federal Appeals Court Establishes Precedent on National Guard Federalization 4 src
Gavin Newsom · U.S. Department of Defense · Charles Breyer · Donald Trump
confirmed
2025-04-21Operation Tidal Wave arrests 1,120 in Florida in largest single-state ICE operation 3 src
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Madison Sheahan · Ron DeSantis · U.S. Department of Homeland Security
confirmed
2025-04-15Triple Canopy (Constellis/Blackwater lineage) operates ~$478M DHS Federal Protective Service domestic armed-guard portfolio at DC/MD/PA/CO federal buildings — Phase-4 paramilitary substrate at domestic federal property 6 src
Triple Canopy · Constellis Holdings
confirmed
2025-04-14Founders Fund Leads $50M Round for Enriched Uranium Startup General Matter; Peter Thiel Joins Board 6 src
Peter Thiel · Founders Fund · Department of Energy
confirmed
2025-04-11Trump Signs NSPM-4 Transferring Roosevelt Reservation to DoD as First 'National Defense Area' at Southern Border; 170-Mile NM Strip Becomes Military Installation Without Congressional Approval 6 src
Donald Trump · U.S. Department of Defense · U.S. Army · Department of Homeland Security · +1
confirmed
2025-04-10ICE cancels $3.8B Fort Bliss contract amid corruption concerns, awards to inexperienced firm 3 src
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Acquisition Logistics LLC · U.S. Department of Defense
confirmed
2025-04-09USCIS to screen immigrants' social media for antisemitic activity 4 src
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · Trump Administration
confirmed
2025-03-12Anduril Wins $642M Marine Corps Counter-Drone Contract for Base Protection Worldwide 4 src
Anduril Industries · Palmer Luckey
confirmed
2025-03-05Scale AI Wins Pentagon "Thunderforge" Contract for AI Military Planning, Partnering with Anduril 2 src
Scale AI · Alexandr Wang · Pentagon · Anduril Industries · +1
confirmed
2025-02-25Constellis FY2025-2026 contract sweep: $700M WEXMAC 2.0, $249M GTMO MACC, $95M FDA, $113M ICE skip-tracing — all competitive, six new vehicles 9 src
Triple Canopy
confirmed
2025-02-22Trump Fires Joint Chiefs Chairman and Navy Chief in Unprecedented Military Purge 4 src
Donald Trump · Pete Hegseth · Jack Reed
confirmed
2025-02-11Anduril Takes Over Microsoft's $22 Billion Army IVAS Augmented Reality Headset Program 10 src
Anduril Industries · Microsoft · Palmer Luckey · U.S. Army · +1
confirmed
2025-01-29Pentagon Ends Travel Reimbursement for Military Members Seeking Abortion Care 3 src
Pete Hegseth · U.S. Department of Defense · Lloyd Austin · Donald Trump
confirmed
2025-01-28Defense Secretary Revokes General Milley Security Detail in Political Retaliation 4 src
Pete Hegseth · Donald Trump
confirmed
2025-01-24NSA Waltz Made $92 Million from Defense Contracting While Advocating Forever Wars 4 src
National Security Council
confirmed
2025-01-24Pete Hegseth confirmed as Defense Secretary in historic VP tiebreaker vote 3 src
Pete Hegseth · J.D. Vance · U.S. Senate · Mitch McConnell · +3
confirmed
2025-01-24Vance Casts Tiebreaker Confirming Hegseth as Defense Secretary: Enabling Event for Project 2025 DoD-Purge Chapter 5 src
J.D. Vance · Pete Hegseth · U.S. Senate · Mitch McConnell · +3
confirmed
2025-01-21National emergency declared at U.S. southern border 9 src
Donald Trump · U.S. Department of Defense · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · Pentagon
confirmed
2025-01-20Trump signs Executive Order 14148 rescinding 78 Biden directives 3 src
Donald Trump · J.D. Vance
confirmed
2025-01-20Trump Signs Unconstitutional Executive Order Challenging Birthright Citizenship 4 src
Donald Trump · Department of Justice · U.S. Supreme Court · American Civil Liberties Union
confirmed
2025-01-14Defense Secretary Nominee Hegseth Declines to Rule Out Military Force Against Greenland and Panama 2 src
Pete Hegseth
confirmed
2024-12-06Palantir and Anduril Launch AI Defense Consortium, Later Expand to SpaceX, OpenAI, and Scale AI 5 src
Palantir Technologies · Anduril Industries · Alex Karp · Palmer Luckey · +4
confirmed
2024-12-04OpenAI Partners with Anduril to Integrate AI into Weapons Systems 2 src
OpenAI · Anduril Industries · U.S. Department of Defense · Palmer Luckey
confirmed
2024-11-27Donald Trump Jr. Joins Unusual Machines Advisory Board, Receives 200,000 Shares, Stock Triples 5 src
Donald Trump Jr. · Unusual Machines · Donald Trump · Pentagon · +1
confirmed
2024-11-26Varda Space Industries Wins $48M AFRL "Prometheus" Contract for Military Hypersonic Reentry Testing 7 src
Founders Fund · Peter Thiel · Pentagon
confirmed
2024-11-19Texas offers Trump 1,402 acres for deportation facilities in "Jocelyn Initiative" 3 src
Donald Trump · Tom Homan · Greg Abbott
confirmed
2024-09-20FTC Sues Big Three PBMs for Artificially Inflating Insulin Prices Through Rebate Schemes 4 src
Federal Trade Commission · Lina Khan · CVS Caremark · Express Scripts · +4
confirmed
2024-08-22Former Rep. Mike Gallagher Joins Palantir as Head of Defense After Resigning Congress 5 src
Palantir Technologies · Alex Karp · Peter Thiel · Pete Hegseth · +2
confirmed
2024-08-08Anduril Announces Arsenal-1: $1 Billion Weapons Manufacturing Facility in Ohio 2 src
Anduril Industries · Palmer Luckey
confirmed
2024-04-24Anduril Wins Air Force Contract for Autonomous Fighter Jet Program 2 src
Anduril Industries · U.S. Air Force · U.S. Department of Defense · Palmer Luckey
confirmed
2024-03-26Fifth Circuit re-blocks Texas SB 4 pending appeal 4 src
Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals · State of Texas · Biden Administration
confirmed
2024-03-19SCOTUS allows Texas SB 4 to take effect temporarily 5 src
Supreme Court of the United States · State of Texas · Biden Administration · Samuel Alito · +3
confirmed
2024-02-01Russian Military Systematically Acquires and Uses Starlink Terminals in Ukraine 3 src
Elon Musk · Vladimir Putin · Starlink
confirmed
2024-01-26Jury Awards E. Jean Carroll $83.3 Million in Second Defamation Trial Against Trump 4 src
E. Jean Carroll · Donald Trump · Lewis Kaplan
confirmed
2023-12-01Chamber of Commerce Sues FTC Over 'Black-Box Environment' Lack of Transparency 3 src
U.S. Chamber of Commerce · Federal Trade Commission · Lina Khan
confirmed
2023-10-09Dataminr Provides LAPD Real-Time Surveillance of Gaza War Protests, Expanding First Amendment Monitoring 2 src
Dataminr · LAPD
confirmed
2023-08-01Thiel-Backed goTenna Contracted for "Off-Grid Facial Recognition" with U.S. Air Force 6 src
Founders Fund · Peter Thiel · In-Q-Tel · U.S. Air Force
confirmed
2023-05-09Jury Finds Trump Liable for Sexual Abuse and Defamation of E. Jean Carroll, Awards $5 Million 4 src
E. Jean Carroll · Donald Trump · Lewis Kaplan
confirmed
2023-04-22Palantir Partners with Ukraine Prosecutor to Process War Crimes Evidence Using AI 3 src
Palantir Technologies
confirmed
2023-01-13Anonymous Whistleblower Leaks 1.7 TB of Cellebrite Data Including Full Software Suite 3 src
Cellebrite · Anonymous
confirmed
2023-01-01SpaceX Wins $1.8 Billion Classified NRO Contract for Hundreds of Spy Satellites 2 src
SpaceX · Elon Musk · National Reconnaissance Office · Pentagon
confirmed
2022-11-10New York Adult Survivors Act Creates Window for Carroll to Sue Trump for Battery 4 src
E. Jean Carroll · Donald Trump · Kathy Hochul
confirmed
2022-10-12Alex Jones Ordered to Pay $965 Million in Sandy Hook Defamation Trial 3 src confirmed
2022-05-25NRO Awards Largest-Ever Commercial Imagery Contracts: $1B to BlackSky, $3.2B to Maxar, Plus Planet 4 src
National Reconnaissance Office · BlackSky Technology · U.S. Intelligence Community
confirmed
2022-02-14Rio Grande Council of Governments, Texas launches first i3-compliant cloud-native 911 system with Carbyne 3 src
Carbyne
confirmed
2022-01-01Anduril AI-Powered Drones Deployed to Ukraine Since 2022 2 src
Anduril Industries · Ukraine · U.S. Department of Defense · Palmer Luckey
confirmed
2022-01-01Starbucks Executes Systematic Union-Busting Campaign with Record NLRB Violations 3 src
National Labor Relations Board
confirmed
2021-03-18Cellebrite Halts Sales to Russia and Belarus After Human Rights Abuse Revelations 3 src
Cellebrite
confirmed
2021-02-15Republican State Parties Censure Senators Who Voted to Convict Trump 4 src
Bill Cassidy · Richard Burr · Pat Toomey · Lisa Murkowski
confirmed
2021-02-13Senate Votes 55-45 to Call Witnesses, Then Reverses After McConnell Threatens Delay 3 src
Kevin McCarthy · Donald Trump · Jamie Raskin · Mitch McConnell
confirmed
2021-02-10Impeachment Managers Present Devastating 13-Minute Video Compilation of January 6 Attack 4 src
Jamie Raskin · Mitt Romney · Chuck Schumer
confirmed
2021-02-04Biden Administration Pauses $760 Million Raytheon and Boeing Arms Sales to Saudi Arabia Over Yemen 4 src
Joe Biden · Raytheon · Boeing · Saudi Arabia · +1
confirmed
2021-01-25Pelosi Transmits Impeachment Article to Senate After Biden Inauguration 4 src
Nancy Pelosi · Jamie Raskin · Chuck Schumer · Mitch McConnell
confirmed
2021-01-15PredPol Rebrands as Geolitica Amid Mounting Criticism of Racial Bias 3 src
PredPol
confirmed
2021-01-15Russell Vought Founds Center for Renewing America, Christian Nationalist Policy Shop for Trump Return 3 src
Russ Vought
confirmed
2020-12-23Trump Pardons Charles Kushner and 14 Others in Single-Day Corruption Spree 4 src
Donald Trump · Charles Kushner · Jared Kushner · Margaret Hunter · +1
confirmed
2020-12-22Trump Pardons Four Blackwater Contractors for Nisour Square Massacre 4 src
Donald Trump · Erik Prince · Betsy DeVos
confirmed
2020-09-08Northrop Grumman Wins $13.3 Billion Contract for Ground Based Strategic Deterrent Nuclear ICBMs 3 src
Northrop Grumman · U.S. Air Force · U.S. Department of Defense · Boeing
confirmed
2020-08-05State Department Report Reveals Trump Administration Ignored Civilian Casualty Risks in Raytheon Saudi Arms Sales 3 src
Donald Trump · Mike Pompeo · Raytheon · Saudi Arabia · +1
confirmed
2020-06-02General Milley Appears with Trump at Lafayette Square After Protest Clearing 3 src
Donald Trump · Federal Law Enforcement · William Barr · Mark Esper
confirmed
2020-05-08AbbVie Completes $63 Billion Allergan Acquisition: Pharmaceutical Industry Consolidates Into Oligopoly 3 src
AbbVie · Federal Trade Commission
confirmed
2020-04-23Trump Suggests Injecting Disinfectant and UV Light Inside Body as COVID Treatments 3 src
Donald Trump
confirmed
2020-04-07Trump Removes Glenn Fine from Pentagon IG, Blocking $2 Trillion CARES Act Oversight 4 src
Donald Trump · Glenn Fine · Carolyn Maloney · Mitt Romney · +1
confirmed
2020-04-06HHS Inspector General Christi Grimm Reports Severe Hospital Shortages, Trump Attacks Her Credibility 4 src
Christi Grimm · Donald Trump · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
confirmed
2020-04-03Raytheon-United Technologies Merge Creates $135 Billion Defense Giant, Consolidating Industry Power 4 src
Raytheon · Greg Hayes · Department of Justice
confirmed
2020-04-02Navy Captain Crozier Fired for Requesting COVID Help for USS Roosevelt Crew 4 src
Donald Trump · U.S. Navy
confirmed
2020-02-07Trump Fires Lt. Col. Vindman from NSC in Retaliation for Impeachment Testimony 5 src
Donald Trump · National Security Council · U.S. Army · Adam Schiff
confirmed
2020-01-30Raytheon Profits Surge on Iran War Fears, CEO Cites Strong International Patriot Missile Demand 3 src
Raytheon · Greg Hayes · Saudi Arabia · Iran · +1
confirmed