THE LEAGUE TABLE — Hard Power Rankings: weekly power rankings of the major hard-power moves.
The Marquee
// the cycle's defining moves10 \u00d7 log\u2081\u2080(value) \u00d7 max(arena weight) \u00d7 0.5^(daysAgo / 12)
The week's top confirmed award scales to 99; everything else falls relative. Strategic arenas (Counter-Drone, Hypersonics, Missile Defense) carry the highest weights; commodity sustainment the lowest. Recency half-life is 12 days. Movement is computed at the company level versus the prior week's snapshot.
The World Standings
// the contract race by region — the international ecosystem, top three per region. Tap a card to filter the feed.The Storylines
// the narrative cutsArena Standings
// the contract race by technology — ten leagues, weekly tables. Tap a card to filter the feed.On Deck
// announced, not yet signedThe Box Score
// season superlativesThe Numbers Game
// week 21 \u00b7 2026 seasonThe Calendar
// the conference circuit — defense, security & policy · dates approximateThe Full Feed — every confirmed win, sortable and filterable
Global Intelligence
// the live wire — international defense publications, refreshed on every page loadThe Editor's Read — Mondays.
One bylined column on the defining hard-power moves of the week. The Marquee in your inbox. No filler.
Why The League Table exists
Modern geopolitical deterrence is built by companies, not just governments. The League Table tracks the global race across the private-sector technologies that decide it — drones, hypersonics, missile defense, space, autonomy, and the rest — and scores allied companies on what they deliver, not what they raise.
The aim is to make the strength of the allied defense-industrial base legible. Every confirmed win by a rule-of-law, Western, or partner-nation company is a data point in a larger contest against adversarial states racing for geopolitical supremacy. This is the leaderboard that makes the wins in that contest visible — every week.
The League Table is published by Future Union.
Methodology
The League Table ranks notable, publicly disclosed defense-technology contract awards across the allied and U.S. industrial base. Each week the desk reviews official U.S. contract announcements and allied procurement and press records, and ranks a curated selection using a proprietary model that weighs the scale of an award, the nature of the contract, the strategic significance of its field, and the reliability of the reported figure. The table is a considered editorial selection rather than an exhaustive registry; figures reflect public disclosures current as of the announcement date and may be revised as awards are firmed up. Awards are attributed to the ultimate parent company, regardless of the contracting subsidiary. Where a value is not disclosed, it is omitted rather than estimated into the record. Corrections and additions are welcomed at the desk.