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defense · sector mood
2001
year mood +0.33 · +0.20 to +0.70 across 12 mo
Monthly mood
bearish −1 +1 bullish
-0.75 -0.38 0 +0.38 +0.75 Jan +0.20 Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov +0.70 Dec
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9/11 launched a decade-long defense boom, and days later Lockheed won the Joint Strike Fighter, the biggest contract ever, while Afghanistan strikes began; budgets were about to explode.

How this mood is scored ▾
Each day the model reads that day's news for the sector and asks, as someone who owns assets or makes their living in it: how am I feeling this month, and why? The month's mood is that running answer, tied to the specific events driving it (the story shown above). It leans on trusted, higher-impact reporting, and on the prior month when a month is quiet, so one loud headline can't swing it. The read updates daily through the month; once a month ends, its mood is locked. This year is read live from the news the pipeline actually collected (hover a bar for its story count). · last computed Jul 06, 2026
Top defense stories of 2001
Oct
Lockheed Martin wins $200B Joint Strike Fighter contract govexec.com →

Lockheed Martin secured a $200 billion Pentagon contract to build 3,002 F-35 fighter jets for the U.S. military and Great Britain, beating Boeing in a long-awaited competition. The deal, potentially worth over $400 billion with international sales, will replace multiple aging aircraft fleets and could create up to 9,000 jobs, solidifying Lockheed's dominance in defense aerospace and impacting global defense procurement trends.

Oct
US begins strikes on Afghanistan; markets take war in stride cnn.com →

The opening of the war on terror lifted defense contractors and initially pressured risk assets, but equities continued their post-September rebound. Defense budgets entered a multi-year expansion that re-rated the sector.