BigBear.ai Stock Skyrockets 22% on Defense AI Deal – Is It the Next Palantir?
BigBear.ai Holdings is a small-cap “defense tech” stock that has caught retail investors’ eye in 2025. Its core business is AI-driven analytics and decision support for defense, security, and critical infrastructure. The company’s CEO, Kevin McAleenan (former U.S. Homeland Security Secretary), has been aggressively pursuing military and government contracts. Recent headlines have delivered a double dose of optimism: a new battlefield AI partnership and a border-security deployment, both of which helped send the stock sharply higher. On Oct. 13, BigBear.ai announced a strategic alliance with Tsecond, Inc., a Silicon Valley defense hardware maker. The two will merge BigBear’s ConductorOS AI