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SpaceX’s S-1 just handed legacy defense investors a number they cannot ignore. And you can bet they won’t. In 2025, roughly one-fifth of SpaceX revenue came from U.S. federal agencies, primarily NASA, the Department of War, the General Services Administration, and certain Intelligence Community agencies, focused on launch services, spacecraft development, satellite deployment, and artificial ... One-Fifth of SpaceX Revenue Comes From Uncle Sam: The Defense Contractors That Should Worry

SpaceX said it employed "over 22,000" people as of March 31, putting it well down the ranks of publicly traded aerospace and defense companies. It said none of them are unionized and doesn't break out how many are in the U.

Recent presidents have stayed away from trading stocks in companies whose fortunes they could lift or scuttle with the stroke of a pen, but Donald Trump smashed that precedent in the first quarter of this year with more than 3,600 buy and sell orders, many of them involving companies whose profits have been directly impacted by his decisions as head of the government. Among the Trump trades in a recent report filed with a federal ethics agency was as much as $6 million in Nvidia, whose advanced chips Trump approved for sale to China last year. “If he were defense secretary, he would be committing a crime,” said Richard Painter, the chief White House ethics adviser in the George W. Bush administration and a big critic of congressional trading, too.

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The defence industry, long considered a value trade, has in the past few years become a growth play. Global conflict is on the rise, and technology...

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ACHR advances eVTOL partnerships and infrastructure efforts as investors weigh supply-chain risks and adoption challenges.

Huntington Ingalls tops Q1 EPS and revenue estimates as volumes rise; $4B in new awards lifts backlog to $54B and 2026 guidance stays intact.