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  "as_of": "2026-11-10",
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    "description": "Aircraft Parts & Auxiliary Equipment, NEC"
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    "text": "We are a premier provider of advanced design, engineering, and vertically integrated manufacturing solutions for leading and next-generation space and defense technology companies. We build complex, mission-critical subsystems for extreme operating environments serving three core markets: Space and Launch Systems; Defense Aviation and Airborne Systems; and Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (“C5ISR”) and Precision Strike Systems.",
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      "source_url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2118195/000119312526257841/0001193125-26-257841-index.htm"
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      "text": "The second quarter saw Applied successfully complete our initial public offering and begin our next chapter as a public company",
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      "title": "Chief Executive Officer of Applied",
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  "source": "SEC EDGAR filings, read by Steadybase. Every value links to the filing it came from."
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