Industrial Base Alpha
Matthew Bernard, Tobias ArmourWeekly analysis of the defense industrial base and companies that contribute to national security.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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| Issues | 33 | Founded | 6 months ago | Last Issue | 47 hours ago |
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Five satellites, a $1 billion backlog, and three Pentagon programs. What this Series E has to prove before the IPO.
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True Anomaly Series D
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Firestorm’s Series B
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HII's $629 Million Problem
Why a 13% revenue gain at the country's largest military shipbuilder was not enough.
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HawkEye 360's Eleven-Year Roadmap
How a signals intelligence company spent eleven years doing everything the SPAC era wouldn't and filed an S-1 that defense and space founders should read twice.
BLUF: HawkEye 360 filed for an IPO on April 10 after eleven years, eight fundi...
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Tracking every dollar flowing into drones, hypersonics, and whatever Anduril is building in the desert this week. Slightly smarter than the average defense Twitter reply guy. Probably. These are my own personal views and no one else's.
New England/DC. Space/Defense. Product/Strategy.
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