Pentagon Pizza Index
The Pentagon Pizza Index is an open-source-intelligence activity proxy that watches late-night demand signals near key government facilities as a rough tell for unusual operational tempo.
The Pentagon Pizza Index is an open-source-intelligence activity proxy — a light-hearted but long-observed heuristic that unusual late-night food-delivery demand near defense and government facilities can correlate with elevated operational tempo before any official signal appears.
In WorldMonitor it is one of several ambient indicators fused into the Strategic Risk context rather than a standalone forecast. It illustrates the platform’s broader thesis: correlating many weak, independent signals surfaces convergence earlier than any single authoritative source.