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Pentagon

The headquarters of the U.S. Department of Defense; shorthand for the U.S. military establishment.

As of 9 Oct 2026Last evidence 9 Oct 2026

What is happening now

  • Pentagon memo outlines plan to operationalize new ‘FORTRESS America’ program office

    Reported claim · first reported 7 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

  • Pentagon says the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be livestreamed

    Reported claim · first reported 6 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 5 separate publishers

  • US senator says he was denied access to damaged military base in Qatar

    Reported claim · first reported 6 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

  • Pentagon names 4 directed-energy weapons for counter-drone program at US bases

    Reported claim · first reported 5 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

All 4 events and claims involving Pentagon

What changed

  • Attention Rising: 157 mentions on 9 Oct 2026, against 117 on 18 Sept 2026 (+34%).
  • State Changes between snapshots: cannot measure, no state history is kept for Pentagon yet.
  • Claims No claim first reported since 8 Oct 2026.

How well we know this

1,872 documents · 259 publishers · 27% contain a typed assertion · last evidence 9 Oct 2026

  • Gap: assertion coverage 0.268: about 73% of mentions carry no typed assertion
  • Gap: 3 receipts withheld: no source link (the same rule the topic record applies)

In this snapshot’s daily coverage:

Reported alongside Pentagon

Names most often reported alongside it; bigger circles and heavier lines mean more shared documents. A dashed circle has no page of its own yet.

TrumpIranUnited StatesAIChinaNavyWhite HouseHegseth
  • Trump · 662 shared documents
  • Iran · 576 shared documents
  • United States · 571 shared documents
  • AI · 442 shared documents
  • United States Congress · 414 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • China · 389 shared documents
  • Navy · 379 shared documents
  • President Donald Trump · 359 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • White House · 295 shared documents
  • Hegseth · 269 shared documents

Story momentum

Rising

Daily mentions +3040% from 25 Aug 2026 to 9 Oct 2026, between 5 and 169 a day

How often tracked coverage mentions Pentagon, day by day.

Market price, cited

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On the desk: Defense Desk

For developers

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The figures on this page, as data. The tool returns the full entity record.

Events involving Pentagon

Most-reported first, then newest. Registered events come from the event record; reported events are groups of claims about one occurrence. Claims are grouped when they were first reported within 2 days of each other and either name at least 2 of the same people, places or things besides this one, or share at least 25% of their wording. Each claim keeps its own record.

  • Pentagon memo outlines plan to operationalize new ‘FORTRESS America’ program office

    Reported claim · first reported 7 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Pentagon says the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be livestreamed

    Reported claim · first reported 6 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 5 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • US senator says he was denied access to damaged military base in Qatar

    Reported claim · first reported 6 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Pentagon names 4 directed-energy weapons for counter-drone program at US bases

    Reported claim · first reported 5 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    corroborated

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Pentagon

Entity.

Evidence
1,872 documents · 259 separate publishers · a mention shows the name is in use, not that any claim about it is true
Standing
A name from our starting list; its record is kept up to date automatically from coverage
Time
first seen 23 Feb 2017, last seen 9 Oct 2026
Measured
27% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
As of
9 Oct 2026
14 links from here

Who it moves with: the 10 names are in the map above.

What is claimed about it (4)

  • Corroborated: Reported by three or more sources that did not copy each other.
  • Reported by two: Reported by two sources that did not copy each other.

Situations it is named in (0)

none on file at this cutoff

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What the coverage says

Recent reporting that names Pentagon, newest first. Open any row to follow it to the original article.

2 more headlines counted but not shown: no source link on file

Evidence tiers: primary source = an official public record · attributed = a named outlet, receipt linked · lead = observed, not yet receipted.

What it connects to

Related records.

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