Company: SAC-UN
Filing Date: 2025-08-22
Form Type: DRS
Source: 0002077096-25-000043
Chunk: 158

Company: Safeguard Acquisition Corp.
Filing Date: 2025-08-22
Form: DRS
Chunk 158
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 we anticipate that critical areas such as cybersecurity, analysis & intelligence, deployment of AI, and digital transformation will continue to receive robust funding. These investments reflect bipartisan recognition of their strategic importance to national security and defense readiness. We believe several structural growth drivers are reinforcing this momentum. The U.S. Federal Budget for fiscal year 2025 allocates over $13 billion to cybersecurity across civilian departments and agencies, reinforcing a whole -of -governmentapproach to cyber resilience. In parallel, the Federal IT budget for fiscal year 2025 exceeds $75 billion, with a significant portion directed toward secure, cloud -nativeplatforms and zero -trustarchitectures. These funding levels underscore the government’s commitment to modernizing its digital infrastructure and protecting critical systems from increasingly sophisticated threats. Key investment themes are emerging across several primary domains. First, in cybersecurity and digital defense, the DoD is advancing a “defend forward” strategy aimed at proactively disrupting adversarial cyber operations before they can impact U.S. interests. This includes both domestic infrastructure protection and cyber support for allies such as Ukraine. A layered cyber ecosystem is being developed to integrate military, civilian, and private sector capabilities, enhancing national resilience against both state and non -stateactors. We believe that the growing complexity of national security missions is driving a fundamental shift toward data -centricoperations, where advanced analytics, AI, and model -basedsystems engineering (“MBSE”) are becoming mission -criticalenablers. Government agencies and defense primes are increasingly leveraging AI/ML to extract actionable intelligence from vast, heterogeneous data sources — ranging from satellite imagery and signals intelligence to cyber threat indicators and open -sourcecontent. These capabilities are enhancing threat detection, accelerating decision cycles, and enabling predictive insights across domains. At the same time, MBSE is transforming how complex defense systems are designed, tested, and deployed — replacing static documentation with dynamic, digital models that improve system integration, reduce lifecycle costs, and enable rapid iteration in response to evolving mission needs. We believe that companies delivering secure, interoperable, and mission -tailoredanalytics and engineering solutions are well -positionedto capture long -termvalue in this evolving landscape. Additionally, we see significant opportunity in mission support and training modernization. AI -driventraining simulations are increasingly replacing traditional physical environments, offering scalable and cost -effectivereadiness solutions. Live -Virtual -Constructiveintegration is blending live exercises with virtual and constructive simulations to enhance realism and adaptability. Additionally, human -machineteaming is being prioritized to