---
title: "How Big Tech and Silicon Valley are Transforming the Military-Industrial Complex"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-big-tech-and-silicon-valley-are-transforming-the-military-industrial-complex-thuyve1iy
source_url: https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/papers/2024/SiliconValley
type: article
source: "Hacker News"
published: 2024-04-26T17:07:25.226Z
updated: 2025-09-06T02:32:19.929Z
tags: ["big-tech", "defense-tech", "tech-news", "venture-capital"]
reading_time: 2
upvotes: 1
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# How Big Tech and Silicon Valley are Transforming the Military-Industrial Complex

**[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 2 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

America's military-industrial complex is expanding to Silicon Valley, with big tech companies benefiting from multi-billion dollar Defense contracts. Major tech firms, such as Microsoft, Amazon, and Alphabet, have received substantial funding, and venture capital firms are also investing heavily in defense tech startups.

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