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Electronic Arts MILITARY

MILITARY AUDIT UPDATED 2026-09-22
Military Score 0.00 /10 D Electronic Arts - BDS-1000 375
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Direct Defence Contracting & Procurement

Electronic Arts Inc. is a Delaware corporation headquartered in Redwood City, California, and its FY2026 Form 10-K was filed on 11 May 2026.1 EA’s SEC subsidiary exhibits identify Electronic Arts Israel Ltd as an Israeli-incorporated subsidiary, but do not describe defence-sector customers, contracts, operational activity, or end users.2, 3

In May 2018, EA announced acquisition of cloud-gaming technology assets and personnel from an Israeli GameFly subsidiary, stating that the Caesarea-based team would join its central technology organisation for entertainment and cloud-gaming purposes.4 That announcement identifies no Israeli military, police, prison, security, or defence customer.4

No public evidence identified. The reviewed corporate disclosures, targeted procurement searches, and Israeli Ministry of Defense SIBAT directory review did not verify an EA or Electronic Arts Israel Ltd contract, tender award, framework agreement, memorandum of understanding, or defence-cooperation announcement involving the IMOD, IDF, Israel Police or Border Police, Israel Prison Service, or an Israeli defence prime.2, 3, 5

A public-data page presenting Israeli Companies Registrar information lists Electronic Arts Israel Ltd as company number 515772630, incorporated on 10 January 2018, at HaRad 9, Tel Aviv–Jaffa, and with a reported voluntary-liquidation status.6 That page is a secondary registry-data presentation rather than a certified registrar extract, so it is an entity-resolution lead rather than proof of current operations, governance, ownership, or customers.6

Dual-Use Products & Tactical Variants

A 2002 National Defense University publication states that defence contractor Sonalysts developed Fleet Command, a commercial game distributed by EA, and describes customised U.S. Navy use of the software.7 This documents a historical U.S. military adaptation involving a commercially distributed EA title, rather than EA development or supply of a tactical product to Israel.7

No public evidence identified of EA manufacturing or marketing ruggedised, mil-spec, tactical, or purpose-built military software or hardware for Israeli forces, or of Israeli end-user certificates, export-licence applications, or export-control approvals for such supply.2, 3, 5

Heavy Machinery, Construction & Infrastructure

The identified Israeli EA operation concerns cloud-gaming technology and personnel rather than construction, engineering, or infrastructure services.4 no public evidence identified that EA or Electronic Arts Israel Ltd supplied machinery, construction, maintenance, engineering, or related services for settlements, the separation barrier, checkpoints, detention facilities, military bases, demolitions, or other occupied-territory infrastructure.1, 2, 4, 3

EA’s subsidiary disclosures establish Israeli incorporation only and do not identify an operational location or activity in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, the Golan Heights, or another occupied territory.2, 3 The supplied document-scoped review found no EA mention in the designated UN Special Rapporteur report, OHCHR settlement-business database materials, or PAX/FIDH report considered in the research.8, 9, 10, 11

Supply Chain Integration with Defence Primes

No public evidence identified of EA supply of components, subsystems, manufacturing services, joint development, co-production, licensed manufacturing, or technology transfer to Elbit, Israel Aerospace Industries, Rafael, IMI, or Elbit Land.2, 3, 5 No IMOD tender record, SIBAT supplier listing, defence-prime supplier record, or defence-exhibition catalogue naming EA or Electronic Arts Israel Ltd was verified in the bounded review.2, 3, 5

The available subsidiary filings do not establish Electronic Arts Israel Ltd’s current staffing, customer base, business line, ownership chain, or operational status.2, 3 Accordingly, Israeli incorporation alone does not establish defence-prime integration or military supply.2, 3

Logistical Sustainment & Base Services

No public evidence identified that EA provided catering, transport, telecommunications, facilities management, freight forwarding, port handling, or other logistical services specifically for Israeli military or security installations.2, 3 The reviewed materials likewise did not identify EA equipment, services, facilities, reseller activity, or logistics used at West Bank, East Jerusalem, or Golan Heights settlements or military installations.2, 3, 8, 9

Munitions, Weapons Systems & Strategic Platforms

No public evidence identified that EA is an Israeli military prime contractor, licensed weapons manufacturer, or supplier of munitions, strategic-platform components, targeting software, fire-control systems, guidance systems, drones, missile-defence systems, combat vehicles, aircraft, or naval systems.7, 5 The historical Fleet Command evidence concerns commercial simulation software and does not document Israeli weapons-system supply.7

Export Licensing, Regulatory & Legal History

No public evidence identified of a publicly disclosed licence grant, refusal, suspension, export-control enforcement action, sanctions investigation, or court proceeding concerning an EA defence-supply relationship with Israel.1, 2, 4, 3, 5 No Israeli-security end-user certificate, IMOD purchase order, export-licence filing, or public procurement record naming EA or Electronic Arts Israel Ltd was verified in the bounded research.2, 3, 5

EA announced in September 2025 that a consortium comprising Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF), Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners had agreed to acquire all of EA, with PIF rolling over its existing approximately 9.9% stake.12, 13, 14 The merger records identify Oak-Eagle AcquireCo, Inc. as merger parent and Oak-Eagle MergerCo, Inc. as its wholly owned subsidiary, and record equity-capital commitments by PIF, Silver Lake-affiliated private funds, and Affinity-affiliated private funds.13, 14

The merger proxy identifies Affinity Partners Fund I LP, Affinity Partners Parallel Fund I LP, Affinity Partners Fund I Co-Invest Delta LP, Delta II LP, Sigma LP, and Sigma II LP as Affinity guarantors, and Silver Lake Partners VII DE (AIV), L.P. as the Silver Lake guarantor.14 These are guarantee and commitment parties, rather than disclosed final post-closing ownership, voting, board-appointment, veto, or operating-control rights.14

PIF agreed to contribute its pre-closing EA shares to the newly formed Parent holding entity in exchange for Parent equity interests, while EA would survive the merger as Parent’s wholly owned subsidiary.13, 14 EA, PIF, and Silver Lake reported that the acquisition closed on 4 August 2026, after which EA common stock ceased trading.15, 16, 17

The reviewed primary closing materials identify PIF, Silver Lake, and Affinity as the acquiring consortium but do not disclose their final ownership percentages, voting rights, board composition, veto rights, or a detailed holding-company chart.15, 16, 17 The CADE search portal and associated Brazilian government API documentation establish routes to search merger-control records, but no transaction-specific CADE filing for this acquisition was retrieved in the bounded research.18, 19 no public evidence identified from a retrieved primary post-closing record of the precise Affinity-, PIF-, or Silver Lake-affiliated equity percentages, voting rights, board seats, veto rights, or control rights in EA’s parent.14, 16, 18, 19

Civil Society Scrutiny & Documented Investigations

The supplied deterministic full-text pre-scan found no Electronic Arts mention in the designated UN Special Rapporteur report, OHCHR settlement-business database updates, or the PAX/FIDH report reviewed for this audit.8, 9, 10 These are document-scoped findings and do not establish absence from all NGO, UN, procurement, or public records.8, 9, 10

The reviewed materials did not identify an organised boycott, divestment action, exclusion, or company policy response specifically premised on EA’s Israeli defence-sector activities.3, 8, 9 A 2019 Creative Community for Peace post described EA music executive Steve Schnur as a co-founder and characterised its event as opposing BDS advocacy, but that organisation’s account does not establish a continuing affiliation or a defence-industry, IDF, IMOD, settlement, weapons, or reservist-fund relationship.20

A 2024 news report identified Schnur in connection with the Promise Sessions and reported that it arranged Nashville trips for IDF soldiers and reservists.21 That report does not establish EA funding, sponsorship, a defence contract, or supply of goods or services to the IDF.21

EA’s 2025 proxy identified Andrew Wilson as Chair and CEO and identified the pre-acquisition board and senior executive cohort for follow-up.22 The reviewed proxy’s outside-affiliation disclosures for Wilson identified the World Surf League and Paley Center for Media, not Israeli defence, military, or settlement organisations.22 EA’s executive page and June 2026 leadership announcement identify Wilson, Stuart Canfield, Laura Miele, Mala Singh, Jacob Schatz, Chris Bruzzo, Cam Weber, Jamil Moledina, and other executives in senior roles, but these materials do not establish defence-sector conduct.23, 24

A 16 April 2026 House Judiciary Committee Democratic-staff letter states that Affinity “often” invested Gulf funds in Israeli companies “closely tied to the military and defense establishment,” while its supporting footnote cites a 9 April 2024 New York Times article.25 The letter itself does not name the companies, transactions, physical products, end users, contracts, or other primary records underlying that assertion.25 no public evidence identified, in the retrieved primary record set, that establishes a complete company-by-company list underlying the letter’s assertion.25

Contemporary reporting identifies one specific Affinity transaction: in September 2023, Affinity reportedly agreed to invest NIS 570 million/$150 million for a 15% interest in a newly created Shlomo Holdings car-and-credit business comprising car leasing, rentals, sales, and credit operations.26, 27 Axios reported that Affinity’s interest was in the auto-services unit and not the group’s non-auto businesses.27 These accounts are secondary reporting rather than a retrieved primary investment agreement, Israeli corporate filing, or procurement record.26, 27

Reporting notes that the broader Shlomo Group included Israel Shipyards among other subsidiaries, but that fact does not establish that Affinity invested in Israel Shipyards.26, 27 The reported transaction scope was the separate automotive-and-credit entity, and the reporting distinguishes Affinity’s stake from non-auto businesses.26, 27

The reported Shlomo transaction concerns civilian car leasing, rental, sales, and credit operations.26, 27 no public evidence identified of an IMOD, IDF, police, prison, border, settler-security, or occupation-related purchaser; a military procurement contract; defence-specification products; or physical supply by the Affinity-invested entity to such a beneficiary.26, 27 The presence of Israel Shipyards elsewhere in the broader group is insufficient to attribute shipyard output, military contracts, maintenance, logistics, or other physical supply to Affinity’s investment in the car-and-credit entity.26, 27

Primary transaction records verify that the consortium financing and Parent structure were arranged in September 2025 and that EA became indirectly owned by the consortium and certain affiliates upon the completed 4 August 2026 acquisition.13, 14, 16 The verified period in which Affinity-affiliated funds held an ownership interest in EA’s parent therefore begins on 4 August 2026.16, 17 The reported Shlomo investment predates that closing, but its continuation, disposal date, governance rights, or status at closing was not established by the retrieved sources.26, 27 Because qualifying military or security physical-supply activity by the Shlomo investment was not verified, no evidenced overlap between such activity and an EA ownership or control relationship is established.14, 16, 26, 27

Footnotes

  1. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/712515/000162828026033617/ea-20260331.htm ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  2. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/712515/000162828026033617/ex-211subsidiariesofthereg.htm ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11 ↩12 ↩13

  3. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/712515/000071251525000022/ea-20250331.htm ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11 ↩12 ↩13 ↩14

  4. https://news.ea.com/press-releases/press-releases-details/2018/Electronic-Arts-Acquires-Cloud-Gaming-Technology - Talent/default.aspx ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  5. https://www.sibat.mod.gov.il/OurServices/Pages/%E2%80%8BDefense%20and%20HLS%20directory.aspx ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7

  6. https://next.obudget.org/i/org/company/515772630 ↩ ↩2

  7. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GOVPUB-D5_400-PURL-LPS23406/pdf/GOVPUB-D5_400-PURL-LPS23406.pdf ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  8. https://docs.un.org/en/A/HRC/59/23 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  9. https://docs.un.org/en/A/HRC/60/19 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  10. https://www.fidh.org/IMG/pdf/report_-_the_companies_arming_israel_and_their_financiers_-_june_2024.pdf ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  11. https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2025/09/un-human-rights-office-updates-database-businesses-involved-israeli ↩

  12. https://www.ea.com/amp/news/ea-announces-agreement-to-be-acquired ↩

  13. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/712515/000114036125036416/ef20056167_defa14a.htm ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  14. https://materials.proxyvote.com/Approved/285512/20251119/NPS_620985.PDF ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8

  15. https://www.pif.gov.sa/en/news-and-insights/newswire/2026/electronic-arts-announces-completion-of-acquisition-by-pif-silver-lake-and-affinity-partners/ ↩ ↩2

  16. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/712515/000114036126031157/ef20079099_ex99-1.htm ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

  17. https://www.silverlake.com/ea-announces-completion-of-acquisition-by-pif-silver-lake-and-affinity-partners/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  18. https://www.gov.br/cade/pt-br/assuntos/servicos-digitais/pesquisa-avancada-do-cade-1 ↩ ↩2

  19. https://www.gov.br/conecta/catalogo/apis/consultar-ato-de-concentracao ↩ ↩2

  20. https://www.creativecommunityforpeace.com/blog/2019/11/ ↩

  21. https://tennesseestar.com/culture/israeli-artists-record-music-for-initiative-organized-by-patricia-heaton-to-fight-antisemitism/mgiffin/2024/05/21/ ↩ ↩2

  22. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/712515/000130817925000556/ea014143-def14a.htm ↩ ↩2

  23. https://www.ea.com/executives ↩

  24. https://www.ea.com/news/leadership-update-june-9 ↩

  25. https://democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/democrats-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/2026-04-16-raskin-to-kushner-affinity-re-conflict-of-interest.pdf ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  26. https://www.timesofisrael.com/jared-kushners-saudi-backed-private-equity-fund-clinches-first-investment-in-israel/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9

  27. https://www.axios.com/2023/09/06/jared-kushner-private-equity-israel-shlomo ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10