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The $800 Billion Realignment: How Anduril, Shield AI, and Palantir Are Displacing Legacy Defense Contractors

Venture-backed defense startups are capturing multi-billion-dollar Pentagon contracts as the U.S. pivots from platform procurement to AI-enabled autonomous systems—restructuring the defense industrial base on a scale unseen since the Cold War's end.

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