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Pete Hegseth

PERSON Government / Defense Policy & Military Leadership Momentum 7.1ML Momentum Score (0-100). Weighted composite of 9 features: mention velocity, article breadth, relationship density, deal context, recency, market cap, enrichment completeness, mention concentration, entity type. CRITICALPSI regime classification. QUIET (<0.3): baseline activity. NORMAL (0.3-0.5): typical deal flow. ELEVATED (0.5-0.7): above-average signals. HIGH (0.7-0.85): significant activity. EXTREME (>0.85): exceptional signal concentration. Primary: Spectral Shift

Pete Hegseth serves as U.S. Secretary of Defense, overseeing a $820B annual defense budget and 2.9M active and reserve military personnel. His tenure focuses on military readiness, defense industrial policy, and strategic competition with China and Russia.

-0.31
PSI ScorePlocamium Signal Index - composite z-score from 5 orthogonal signals: news frequency, targeted sentiment, graph centrality, regulatory filings, and clinical trial activity.
7.1
MomentumML Momentum Score (0-100). Weighted composite of 9 features including mention velocity, article breadth, deal context, and relationship density. Retrained weekly.
1%
ConfidenceSignal confidence - percentage of PSI sub-signals with sufficient data (30+ observations). Higher confidence means the PSI score is based on more complete data.
60
ConnectionsDegree centrality - number of unique entities this entity co-occurs with in news signals and articles. Higher = more connected in the intelligence network.
Connected Entities
Hegseth United States Iran DOD Donald Trump White House WASHINGTON Strait of Hormuz Tehran Washington Middle East Congress Marco Rubio of State Senate
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PSI Intelligence
30-Day Trend
2026-04-22 2026-05-22 60 0 Degree Mentions
Signal Decomposition
Attention Cascade
3.333
Narrative Drift
0.000
Spectral Shift
571.499
Sentiment-Momentum Divergence
0.000
Source Concentration
0.351
Peer Comparison
Not yet ranked. Sector-relative scoring requires at least four entities in the same BICS sector with PSI history; this entity does not yet meet the threshold or sits in a sector with insufficient peers.
Predicted Links
Predicted ConnectionProbability
State Department 1.000
Network Analysis
60 Degree Centrality
Ego Network (top connections)
Hegseth (weight 106.0)United States (weight 105.0)Iran (weight 87.0)DOD (weight 81.0)Donald Trump (weight 58.0)White House (weight 44.0)WASHINGTON (weight 26.0)Strait of Hormuz (weight 25.0) HegsethUnited StatesIranDODDonald TrumpWhite HouseWASHINGTONStrait of Hormuz Pete Hegseth (degree 60) Pete Hegseth
Centrality History
2026-04-22 2026-05-22 60 0 Degree Mentions
EntityWeight StatusFirst Seen
Hegseth 106 NEW
United States 105 NEW
Iran 87 NEW
DOD 81 NEW
Donald Trump 58 NEW
White House 44 NEW
WASHINGTON 26 NEW
Strait of Hormuz 25 NEW
Tehran 24 NEW
Washington 20 NEW
Middle East 18 NEW
Congress 17 NEW
Marco Rubio 16 NEW
of State 16 NEW
Senate 13 NEW
President 11 NEW
Gulf 11 NEW
Democrats 11 NEW
China 9 NEW
REUTERS 9 NEW
Pope Leo XIV 7 NEW
AP 7 NEW
U.S. Army 6 NEW
FBI 6 NEW
Fox News 6 NEW
JD Vance 6 NEW
Pakistan 6 NEW
Washington, D.C. 5 NEW
GOP 5 NEW
CNN 5 NEW
Article Coverage (0)
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No Plocamium-authored coverage yet. This entity surfaces in upstream signals (news, filings, trials) but has not yet been a primary subject of a published article. Watch this entity to be alerted when one is published.

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Data as of 2026-05-22 ← Intelligence Network