| 2026-03-24 | Palantir and Anduril Developing Core Software for $185 Billion Golden Dome Missile Shield Palantir · Anduril Industries · SpaceX · Elon Musk · +5 |
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| 2026-03-21 | Feinberg Signs Memo Designating Palantir Maven as Official DOD "Program of Record" — Locking in Long-Term Funding Despite Claude Dependency Steve Feinberg · Palantir · U.S. Army · Pentagon CDAO |
| confirmed |
| 2026-03-20 | Anthropic Filing Reveals Pentagon Emailed Day After Blacklist Saying Sides Were "Very Close" — Calls DOD Claim of Approval Demand "A Central Falsehood" Anthropic · Sarah Heck · Thiyagu Ramasamy · Emil Michael · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2026-03-18 | Democracy Now Airs Segment on Pentagon's AI Kill Chain — Palantir Maven Reduced Targeting From "Tens of Thousands of Hours" to "Seconds" Palantir · Pentagon · Craig Jones | | confirmed |
| 2026-03-18 | DOD Files 40-Page Rebuttal Claiming Anthropic Might "Disable Its Technology" During Warfighting Operations Over Corporate Red Lines Department of Defense · Pete Hegseth · Anthropic · Chris Mattei |
| confirmed |
| 2026-03-17 | Pentagon Plans to Let AI Companies Train Military Models on Classified Intelligence Data — OpenAI and xAI Already Have Agreements Pentagon CDAO · OpenAI · xAI |
| confirmed |
| 2026-03-14 | U.S. Army Awards Anduril $20 Billion Enterprise Contract for AI-Enabled Lattice Platform Anduril Industries · U.S. Army · Donald Trump Jr. · Peter Thiel · +4 |
| confirmed |
| 2026-03-13 | 120+ House Democrats Demand Pentagon Explain AI's Role in Selecting Minab School Target That Killed 170+ Rep. Sara Jacobs · Pete Hegseth · House Democrats |
| confirmed |
| 2026-03-09 | Anthropic Files Dual Federal Lawsuits Challenging Pentagon's Supply Chain Risk Designation as Unconstitutional Retaliation Anthropic · Dario Amodei · U.S. Department of Defense · Pete Hegseth · +3 |
| confirmed |
| 2026-03-08 | EFF and The Intercept Find OpenAI's Pentagon Deal Surveillance Guardrails Unenforceable, Warning of AI-Powered Domestic Surveillance Risk OpenAI · Sam Altman · U.S. Department of Defense · Electronic Frontier Foundation · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2026-03-07 | OpenAI Robotics Chief Caitlin Kalinowski Resigns Over Pentagon Deal, Citing Surveillance and Autonomous Weapons Concerns OpenAI · Caitlin Kalinowski · Sam Altman · U.S. Department of Defense |
| confirmed |
| 2026-03-06 | Anthropic Files Lawsuit Against Pentagon Over Unprecedented National Security Designation Anthropic · Dario Amodei · U.S. Department of Defense · Pete Hegseth |
| confirmed |
| 2026-03-05 | Anthropic Reopens Pentagon Talks as Defense Experts Warn Blacklist Sets Dangerous Precedent for AI Safety Anthropic · Dario Amodei · U.S. Department of Defense · Pete Hegseth · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2026-03-04 | Pentagon Formally Designates Anthropic a National Security Supply-Chain Risk, First US Company So Labeled Anthropic · Dario Amodei · U.S. Department of Defense · Pete Hegseth · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2026-03-04 | Pentagon Uses Banned Anthropic Claude to Select 1,000+ Iran Strike Targets While Simultaneously Blacklisting the Company Anthropic · U.S. Department of Defense · Pete Hegseth · Donald Trump · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2026-03-03 | OpenAI Revises Pentagon Deal After Surveillance Loophole Backlash, Critics Remain Unconvinced Sam Altman · OpenAI · U.S. Department of Defense · Katrina Mulligan |
| confirmed |
| 2026-02-27 | OpenAI Strikes Pentagon Deal Hours After Trump Blacklists Anthropic, Drawing Backlash Sam Altman · OpenAI · U.S. Department of Defense · Pete Hegseth · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2026-02-26 | Anthropic Formally Rejects Pentagon Ultimatum, Amodei Holds Red Lines on AI Safety Dario Amodei · Anthropic · Pete Hegseth · U.S. Department of Defense |
| confirmed |
| 2026-02-24 | Hegseth Threatens Anthropic with Defense Production Act Over Military AI Access Pete Hegseth · Dario Amodei · Anthropic · U.S. Department of Defense |
| confirmed |
| 2025-10-31 | Anduril's Autonomous Fighter Jet Completes First Flight Test Anduril Industries · U.S. Air Force · Palmer Luckey |
| confirmed |
| 2025-06-05 | Anduril Raises $2.5 Billion at $30.5 Billion Valuation, Led by Founders Fund 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 Anduril Industries · Palmer Luckey · Founders Fund · Peter Thiel |
| confirmed |
| 2025-03-12 | Anduril Wins $642M Marine Corps Counter-Drone Contract for Base Protection Worldwide 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 Scale AI · Alexandr Wang · Pentagon · Defense Innovation Unit · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2024-12-06 | Palantir and Anduril Launch AI Defense Consortium, Later Expand to SpaceX, OpenAI, and Scale AI Palantir Technologies · Anduril Industries · Alex Karp · Palmer Luckey · +5 |
| confirmed |
| 2024-12-04 | OpenAI Partners with Anduril to Integrate AI into Weapons Systems OpenAI · Anduril Industries · U.S. Department of Defense · Palmer Luckey |
| confirmed |
| 2024-09-01 | Anduril Deploys 300th Autonomous Surveillance Tower at U.S.-Mexico Border Anduril Industries · U.S. Customs and Border Protection · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · Palmer Luckey |
| confirmed |
| 2024-08-08 | Anduril Announces Arsenal-1: $1 Billion Weapons Manufacturing Facility in Ohio Anduril Industries · Palmer Luckey · State of Ohio |
| confirmed |
| 2024-04-24 | Anduril Wins Air Force Contract for Autonomous Fighter Jet Program Anduril Industries · U.S. Air Force · U.S. Department of Defense · Palmer Luckey · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2022-01-01 | Anduril AI-Powered Drones Deployed to Ukraine Since 2022 Anduril Industries · Ukraine · U.S. Department of Defense · Palmer Luckey |
| confirmed |
| 2020-07-01 | CBP Awards Anduril $25 Million for Autonomous Surveillance Towers at Border Anduril Industries · U.S. Customs and Border Protection · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · Palmer Luckey |
| confirmed |
| 2017-06-16 | Anduril Industries Founded by Palmer Luckey and Former Palantir Executives Palmer Luckey · Peter Thiel · Trae Stephens · Brian Schimpf · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2017-06-01 | Anduril Industries Founded by Palantir Alumni with Thiel Backing, Building Autonomous Weapons Layer Palmer Luckey · Trae Stephens · Brian Schimpf · Matt Grimm · +4 |
| confirmed |