Pentagon
Pentagon appears in 731 analyzed articles across the measured technology press. Recent coverage is easing, counting every mention over recent months. This page shows the public snapshot: movement, coverage mix, recent sources, and what drove the latest change.
Compass measures press coverage, not Pentagon's product quality, business performance, or market value.
Counting every mention, coverage of Pentagon is easing — it appears in 731 analyzed articles across the technology press.
What Pentagon coverage is made of over time: story type, claim stage as reported, and press framing. This measures the coverage, not the product.
Story type and claim stage are shares of the 606 classified coverage items in this window. Press framing is a share of the 605 of those whose framing could be read — vendor and primary-source items carry no framing.
How to read this
The stream below stacks each month's coverage by the lens you choose: Tone (how the press frames the story — promotional, skeptical, critical, or neutral), Story type (launches, funding, lawsuits, partnerships…), or Stage — how far the reported claim has gone: speculation → announcement → launch → results.
Taller bands mean more coverage that month; the dots beneath mark notable non‑neutral events. Every signal is sourced and dated.
How this is counted — why the article numbers differ
731 articles mention Pentagon across the corpus. The coverage make-up above is measured on the 413 of them that were read into dated, classified coverage items — and one article can produce more than one item, because story type, claim stage and framing are read separately.
- report A Pentagon memo directed staff to spend $244 million with Palantir.
- funding The Pentagon conditionally committed up to $820 million to Performance Drone Works for domestic UAS component manufacturing.
- DJI scores a win in fight against US ban, appeals court orders fresh review of firm's 'Chinese military company' designation — drone maker will stay on Pentagon list while a judge examines classified evidence for the first time Tom's Hardware
- 45 MQ-9 Reaper drones have been destroyed in the Iran war - a quarter of the fleet worth $1.3 billion obliterated TechRadar
- Trump administration tells Apple to stay away from Chinese memory chipsThe Mac Observer
As of 26 Aug 2026 · corpus coverage 94% · 361,312 articles. Correlational & coverage-limited.
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