Working with the U.S. military used to be taboo for the tech sector. Employees at companies like Google agonized over working with the U.S. national security establishment, going as far as launching protests against management.
Times have changed: Now, U.S. tech companies, large and small, are happily partnering with U.S. government agencies. Both Big Tech and AI developers are signing deals with the Department of Defense (or the rechristened Department of War) and other national security agencies, and investors are piling into defense tech companies like Palantir.
