Military-Industrial Complex
The Military-Industrial Complex capture lane traces 352 verified events documenting this mechanism of institutional capture.
Top 10 actors in this lane
10 actors · 1807–2026
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| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-08-01 | U.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 | |
| 2025-07-25 | Trump Administration Accepts Qatar's Luxury Jet, Uses Missile Program Funds for Retrofit
3 src Donald Trump · Troy Meink · Pete Hegseth | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-18 | Army Issues $1.24B WEXMAC Task Order to Acquisition Logistics for Fort Bliss Soft-Sided Detention Facility
4 src Acquisition Logistics LLC · MICC Fort Sam Houston · U.S. Army · Kenneth Wagner | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-17 | Thiel's Founders Fund Leads $260M Round for Hadrian Defense Manufacturing Startup
2 src Hadrian Automation · Founders Fund · Peter Thiel · Lux Capital · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-15 | Pentagon Awards $295 Million Guam Defense Contract as Military Buildup Strains Local Housing Market
2 src U.S. Department of Defense · Core Tech-HDCC-Kajima LLC · Missile Defense Agency · Robert Rasch | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-07 | Bovino Leads Military-Style Raid on MacArthur Park as Children Flee, Defies Mayor Bass
5 src Gregory Bovino · Karen Bass · U.S. Customs and Border Protection · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-01 | Florida opens "Alligator Alcatraz" tent detention camp in Everglades at $450 million annual cost
4 src Florida Division of Emergency Management · James Uthmeier · Ron DeSantis · Donald Trump · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-24 | Bernie 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 | |
| 2025-06-24 | Trump Brokers Israel-Iran Ceasefire Ending Twelve-Day War
3 src Donald Trump · JD Vance · Benjamin Netanyahu · Qatar | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-22 | US Launches 'Operation Midnight Hammer' Strikes on Iran's Fordow and Natanz Nuclear Facilities
3 src Donald Trump · US Air Force · US Navy · Rafael Grossi | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-17 | Pentagon Transfers Greenland from European Command to Northern Command
2 src Donald Trump · Pentagon | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-13 | Israel Launches Operation Rising Lion: Major Strikes on Iran's Nuclear Facilities
11 src Israeli Defense Forces · Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps · Benjamin Netanyahu · Rafael Mariano Grossi · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-13 | Israel'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 | |
| 2025-06-12 | Israel Conducts Major Strikes on Iran Nuclear Infrastructure
3 src Israeli Defense Forces · Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps · Netanyahu administration · Iranian nuclear scientists · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-07 | Bovino'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 · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-05 | Anduril Raises $2.5 Billion at $30.5 Billion Valuation, Led by Founders Fund
2 src Anduril Industries · Peter Thiel · Founders Fund · Palmer Luckey · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-05 | Anduril Reaches $30+ Billion Valuation, Becoming Most Valuable Private Defense Startup in History
1 src Anduril Industries · Palmer Luckey · Founders Fund · Peter Thiel | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-01 | Operation 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 | |
| 2025-04-25 | Pentagon Prepared and Then Canceled Classified Briefing for Musk on China War Plans
3 src Donald Trump · Elon Musk · Pete Hegseth · Admiral Samuel Paparo | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-22 | Federal Appeals Court Establishes Precedent on National Guard Federalization
4 src Federal Appeals Court · Gavin Newsom · U.S. Department of Defense · Charles Breyer · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-21 | Operation 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 | |
| 2025-04-15 | Triple 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 · DHS Federal Protective Service · FDA (White Oak Campus) | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-14 | Founders Fund Leads $50M Round for Enriched Uranium Startup General Matter; Peter Thiel Joins Board
6 src Peter Thiel · Founders Fund · General Matter · Scott Nolan · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-11 | Trump 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 | |
| 2025-04-10 | ICE cancels $3.8B Fort Bliss contract amid corruption concerns, awards to inexperienced firm
3 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Deployed Resources · Acquisition Logistics LLC · U.S. Department of Defense | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-09 | USCIS to screen immigrants' social media for antisemitic activity
4 src U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · Trump Administration · Civil liberties groups | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-12 | Anduril Wins $642M Marine Corps Counter-Drone Contract for Base Protection Worldwide
4 src Anduril Industries · U.S. Marine Corps · Palmer Luckey · U.S. Department of the Navy | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-05 | Scale AI Wins Pentagon "Thunderforge" Contract for AI Military Planning, Partnering with Anduril
2 src Scale AI · Alexandr Wang · Pentagon · Defense Innovation Unit · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-22 | Trump Fires Joint Chiefs Chairman and Navy Chief in Unprecedented Military Purge
4 src Donald Trump · Pete Hegseth · General Charles Q. Brown Jr. · Admiral Lisa Franchetti · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-29 | Pentagon Ends Travel Reimbursement for Military Members Seeking Abortion Care
3 src Pete Hegseth · U.S. Department of Defense · Lloyd Austin · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-28 | Defense Secretary Revokes General Milley Security Detail in Political Retaliation
4 src Pete Hegseth · General Mark Milley · Pentagon Inspector General · Iranian Regime · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-24 | NSA Waltz Made $92 Million from Defense Contracting While Advocating Forever Wars
4 src michael-waltz · metis-solutions · pacific-architects-and-engineers · Defense Department · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-24 | Pete Hegseth confirmed as Defense Secretary in historic VP tiebreaker vote
3 src Pete Hegseth · JD Vance · U.S. Senate · Mitch McConnell · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-24 | Vance Casts Tiebreaker Confirming Hegseth as Defense Secretary: Enabling Event for Project 2025 DoD-Purge Chapter
5 src JD Vance · Pete Hegseth · U.S. Senate · Mitch McConnell · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-21 | National emergency declared at U.S. southern border
9 src Donald Trump · U.S. Department of Defense · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · Pentagon · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | Trump signs Executive Order 14148 rescinding 78 Biden directives
3 src Donald Trump · JD Vance · Domestic Policy Council · National Economic Council | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | Trump Signs Unconstitutional Executive Order Challenging Birthright Citizenship
4 src Donald Trump · Department of Justice · U.S. Supreme Court · Asian Law Caucus · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-14 | Defense Secretary Nominee Hegseth Declines to Rule Out Military Force Against Greenland and Panama
2 src Pete Hegseth · Mazie Hirono | confirmed | |
| 2024-12-06 | Palantir and Anduril Launch AI Defense Consortium, Later Expand to SpaceX, OpenAI, and Scale AI
5 src Palantir Technologies · Anduril Industries · Alex Karp · Palmer Luckey · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2024-12-04 | OpenAI Partners with Anduril to Integrate AI into Weapons Systems
2 src OpenAI · Anduril Industries · U.S. Department of Defense · Palmer Luckey | confirmed | |
| 2024-11-27 | Donald Trump Jr. Joins Unusual Machines Advisory Board, Receives 200,000 Shares, Stock Triples
5 src Donald Trump Jr. · Unusual Machines · Allan Evans · Donald Trump · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-11-26 | Varda Space Industries Wins $48M AFRL "Prometheus" Contract for Military Hypersonic Reentry Testing
7 src Varda Space Industries · Air Force Research Laboratory · Founders Fund · Peter Thiel · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2024-11-19 | Texas offers Trump 1,402 acres for deportation facilities in "Jocelyn Initiative"
3 src Dawn Buckingham (TX Land Commissioner) · Donald Trump · Tom Homan · Greg Abbott · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-09-20 | FTC 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 | |
| 2024-08-22 | Former Rep. Mike Gallagher Joins Palantir as Head of Defense After Resigning Congress
5 src Mike Gallagher · Palantir Technologies · Alex Karp · Peter Thiel · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2024-08-08 | Anduril Announces Arsenal-1: $1 Billion Weapons Manufacturing Facility in Ohio
2 src Anduril Industries · Palmer Luckey · State of Ohio | confirmed | |
| 2024-04-24 | Anduril Wins Air Force Contract for Autonomous Fighter Jet Program
2 src Anduril Industries · U.S. Air Force · U.S. Department of Defense · Palmer Luckey · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-03-26 | Fifth Circuit re-blocks Texas SB 4 pending appeal
4 src Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals · Chief Judge Priscilla Richman · State of Texas · Biden Administration | confirmed | |
| 2024-03-19 | SCOTUS allows Texas SB 4 to take effect temporarily
5 src Supreme Court of the United States · State of Texas · Biden Administration · Justice Samuel Alito · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2024-02-01 | Russian Military Systematically Acquires and Uses Starlink Terminals in Ukraine
3 src Elon Musk · Vladimir Putin · Russian military · Starlink · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-01-26 | Jury Awards E. Jean Carroll $83.3 Million in Second Defamation Trial Against Trump
4 src E. Jean Carroll · Donald Trump · Lewis Kaplan · Roberta Kaplan | confirmed | |
| 2023-12-01 | Chamber of Commerce Sues FTC Over 'Black-Box Environment' Lack of Transparency
3 src U.S. Chamber of Commerce · Federal Trade Commission · Lina Khan · Suzanne Clark | confirmed | |
| 2023-10-09 | Dataminr Provides LAPD Real-Time Surveillance of Gaza War Protests, Expanding First Amendment Monitoring
2 src Dataminr · LAPD · Talia Jane | confirmed | |
| 2023-08-01 | Thiel-Backed goTenna Contracted for "Off-Grid Facial Recognition" with U.S. Air Force
6 src goTenna · Founders Fund · Peter Thiel · In-Q-Tel · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2023-05-09 | Jury 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 | |
| 2023-04-22 | Palantir Partners with Ukraine Prosecutor to Process War Crimes Evidence Using AI
3 src Palantir Technologies · Ukraine Prosecutor General's Office · Andriy Kostin | confirmed | |
| 2023-01-13 | Anonymous Whistleblower Leaks 1.7 TB of Cellebrite Data Including Full Software Suite
3 src Cellebrite · Anonymous · Enlace Hacktivista | confirmed | |
| 2023-01-01 | SpaceX Wins $1.8 Billion Classified NRO Contract for Hundreds of Spy Satellites
2 src SpaceX · Elon Musk · National Reconnaissance Office · Pentagon | confirmed | |
| 2022-11-10 | New York Adult Survivors Act Creates Window for Carroll to Sue Trump for Battery
4 src E. Jean Carroll · Donald Trump · Kathy Hochul · Brad Hoylman · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2022-10-12 | Alex Jones Ordered to Pay $965 Million in Sandy Hook Defamation Trial
3 src Alex Jones · Sandy Hook victim families · Connecticut Superior Court | confirmed | |
| 2022-05-25 | NRO Awards Largest-Ever Commercial Imagery Contracts: $1B to BlackSky, $3.2B to Maxar, Plus Planet
4 src National Reconnaissance Office · BlackSky Technology · Maxar Technologies · Planet Labs · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2022-02-14 | Rio Grande Council of Governments, Texas launches first i3-compliant cloud-native 911 system with Carbyne
3 src Rio Grande Council of Governments · Carbyne · City of Alpine Texas · Brewster County Texas · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2022-01-01 | Anduril AI-Powered Drones Deployed to Ukraine Since 2022
2 src Anduril Industries · Ukraine · U.S. Department of Defense · Palmer Luckey | confirmed | |
| 2022-01-01 | Starbucks Executes Systematic Union-Busting Campaign with Record NLRB Violations
3 src Starbucks · Howard Schultz · Starbucks Workers United · National Labor Relations Board · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2021-03-18 | Cellebrite Halts Sales to Russia and Belarus After Human Rights Abuse Revelations
3 src Cellebrite · Eitay Mack | confirmed | |
| 2021-02-15 | Republican State Parties Censure Senators Who Voted to Convict Trump
4 src Bill Cassidy · Richard Burr · Ben Sasse · Pat Toomey · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2021-02-13 | Senate Votes 55-45 to Call Witnesses, Then Reverses After McConnell Threatens Delay
3 src Jaime Herrera Beutler · Kevin McCarthy · Donald Trump · Jamie Raskin · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2021-02-10 | Impeachment Managers Present Devastating 13-Minute Video Compilation of January 6 Attack
4 src Jamie Raskin · Stacey Plaskett · Eric Swalwell · Eugene Goodman · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2021-02-04 | Biden Administration Pauses $760 Million Raytheon and Boeing Arms Sales to Saudi Arabia Over Yemen
4 src Joe Biden · Jake Sullivan · Raytheon · Boeing · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-25 | Pelosi Transmits Impeachment Article to Senate After Biden Inauguration
4 src Nancy Pelosi · Jamie Raskin · Chuck Schumer · Mitch McConnell · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-15 | PredPol Rebrands as Geolitica Amid Mounting Criticism of Racial Bias
3 src PredPol · Geolitica | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-15 | Russell Vought Founds Center for Renewing America, Christian Nationalist Policy Shop for Trump Return
3 src Russ Vought | confirmed | |
| 2020-12-23 | Trump Pardons Charles Kushner and 14 Others in Single-Day Corruption Spree
4 src Donald Trump · Charles Kushner · Jared Kushner · Paul Erickson · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2020-12-22 | Trump Pardons Four Blackwater Contractors for Nisour Square Massacre
4 src Donald Trump · Erik Prince · Betsy DeVos · Nicholas Slatten · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2020-09-08 | Northrop 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 · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2020-08-05 | State Department Report Reveals Trump Administration Ignored Civilian Casualty Risks in Raytheon Saudi Arms Sales
3 src Donald Trump · Mike Pompeo · Raytheon · Saudi Arabia · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2020-06-02 | General Milley Appears with Trump at Lafayette Square After Protest Clearing
3 src General Mark Milley · Donald Trump · Joint Chiefs of Staff · Federal Law Enforcement · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2020-05-08 | AbbVie Completes $63 Billion Allergan Acquisition: Pharmaceutical Industry Consolidates Into Oligopoly
3 src AbbVie · Allergan · Federal Trade Commission | confirmed | |
| 2020-04-23 | Trump Suggests Injecting Disinfectant and UV Light Inside Body as COVID Treatments
3 src Donald Trump · William Bryan | confirmed | |
| 2020-04-07 | Trump Removes Glenn Fine from Pentagon IG, Blocking $2 Trillion CARES Act Oversight
4 src Donald Trump · Glenn Fine · Carolyn Maloney · Mitt Romney · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2020-04-06 | HHS Inspector General Christi Grimm Reports Severe Hospital Shortages, Trump Attacks Her Credibility
4 src Christi Grimm · Donald Trump · Jason Weida · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services | confirmed | |
| 2020-04-03 | Raytheon-United Technologies Merge Creates $135 Billion Defense Giant, Consolidating Industry Power
4 src Raytheon · United Technologies Corporation · Greg Hayes · Department of Justice · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2020-04-02 | Navy Captain Crozier Fired for Requesting COVID Help for USS Roosevelt Crew
4 src Captain Brett Crozier · Thomas Modly · Donald Trump · USS Theodore Roosevelt crew · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2020-02-07 | Trump Fires Lt. Col. Vindman from NSC in Retaliation for Impeachment Testimony
5 src Donald Trump · Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman · Lt. Col. Yevgeny Vindman · National Security Council · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2020-01-30 | Raytheon Profits Surge on Iran War Fears, CEO Cites Strong International Patriot Missile Demand
3 src Raytheon · Greg Hayes · Saudi Arabia · Iran · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2019-12-20 | Trump Signs Defense Bill Creating Space Force
3 src Donald Trump · Jay Raymond · Todd Harrison | confirmed | |
| 2019-11-10 | Groyper War Erupts: Far-Right Activists Disrupt Trump Jr. Event at UCLA
3 src Nick Fuentes · Donald Trump Jr. · Charlie Kirk | confirmed | |
| 2019-10-29 | Lt. Col. Vindman Testifies - "It Was Improper for the President to Demand Investigation of U.S. Citizen"
3 src Alexander Vindman · Donald Trump · Fiona Hill | confirmed | |
| 2019-10-26 | Pentagon Awards $10 Billion JEDI Cloud Contract to Microsoft Over Amazon
3 src Pentagon · Microsoft · Amazon Web Services · Donald Trump · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2019-09-14 | Raytheon's $15 Billion Patriot Missile System Fails Spectacularly, Allowing Drone Swarm to Cripple Saudi Oil Production
4 src Raytheon · Saudi Arabia · Iran · Mohammed bin Salman · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2019-07-24 | Trump Vetoes Congressional Resolutions Blocking Raytheon Saudi Arms Sales, Protecting Defense Contractor Profits
4 src Donald Trump · Raytheon · Lockheed Martin · Boeing · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2019-07-23 | Mark Esper Confirmed as Defense Secretary Despite Raytheon Lobbying Career and Refusal to Recuse
4 src Mark Esper · Raytheon · Donald Trump · Elizabeth Warren · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2019-06-28 | Raytheon GBU-12 Bomb Kills Six Civilians Including Three Children in Yemen Village Attack
3 src Raytheon · Saudi Arabia · Mohammed bin Salman · Amnesty International · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2019-06-20 | Senate Votes to Block Raytheon Paveway Bomb Sales to Saudi Arabia in Bipartisan Rebuke
4 src Bob Menendez · Lindsey Graham · Chris Murphy · Rand Paul · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2019-06-07 | Trump Administration Approves Unprecedented Raytheon Technology Transfer to Let Saudis Build Bombs Domestically
4 src Donald Trump · Raytheon · Saudi Arabia · Mohammed bin Salman · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2019-05-24 | Trump Declares Fake Emergency to Ram Through $8.1 Billion Raytheon Arms Sale to Saudi Arabia
4 src Donald Trump · Mike Pompeo · Raytheon · Lockheed Martin · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2019-02-14 | Northrop Grumman Pays $5.2 Million for Fraudulent USPS Contract Labor Billing
3 src Northrop Grumman · Department of Justice · U.S. Postal Service · USPS Office of Inspector General | confirmed | |
| 2019-02-01 | Erik Prince's Frontier Services Group Announces Xinjiang Training Facility Amid Uyghur Detention Campaign
4 src Erik Prince · Frontier Services Group · Chang Zhenming · CITIC Group | confirmed | |
| 2018-11-01 | Northrop Grumman Pays $31.65 Million for Fraudulent Overbilling of Air Force Contracts
3 src Northrop Grumman · Department of Justice · U.S. Air Force · Defense Criminal Investigative Service · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2018-10-23 | Trump Calls Saudi Khashoggi Explanation "Worst Cover-Up Ever" But Signals He Won't Hold MBS Accountable
4 src Donald Trump · Mohammed bin Salman · Mike Pompeo · Saudi Arabia government | confirmed |