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Pentagon aims to accelerate acquisition of new tech through software-contracting change
Buyers must default to rapid-acquisition processes long used by DIU, SecDef memo orders.
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With IVAS takeover, Anduril looks to build out human-machine ‘ecosystem’
Microsoft hands over its prime role on the $22 billion Army headset program to a defense tech company that is proclaiming a “new path in human augmentation.”
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What Google’s return to defense AI means
More competition in a hot market — and the plain fact that only the Pentagon will set boundaries.
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Industry launches $100B AI-infrastructure effort to keep ahead of China
Oracle, OpenAI focus on data centers as AI race begins to turn on computing power instead of math.
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Are AI defense firms about to eat the Pentagon?
Competitors are becoming collaborators in the industry’s hottest segment.
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Defense officials hopeful incoming administration keeps funding cutting-edge tech
Amid competing priorities, they pitched dual-use research as key to competing with China.
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Defense officials hopeful incoming administration keeps funding cutting-edge tech
Amid competing priorities, they pitched dual-use research as key to competing with China.
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DIU orders software to drive massive drone swarms
The software glue holding the Replicator effort together is beginning to harden.
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Can AI predict if a Marine will quit? Corps wants to know
“Retention prediction network” could reveal signs that trainers and recruiters might otherwise miss.
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Companies that left Russia after 2022 invasion saw reputation boost, study shows
Even firms that hesitated eventually saw better net buzz.
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How AI is turning satellite imagery into a window on the future
What can a picture from space tell you? “You're likely to have a drought here that might lead to civil unrest.”
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As space gets more crowded, Pentagon looks to AI to spot weapons
A new DARPA contract aims to identify satellites behaving strangely.
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New bill would greatly expand Defense Department quantum efforts
Proposed legislation would establish a quantum advisor and a new center of excellence.
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Navy envisions ‘hundreds of thousands’ of drones in the Pacific to deter China
With DIU contracting for prototypes, Pacific Fleet is experimenting with unmanned craft that may one day defend Taiwan.
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How often does ChatGPT push misinformation?
Researchers found that one of the most popular generative-AI tools agreed with false statements up to one-quarter of the time.
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Lockheed, Northrop share $1.5 billion contract for new transport satellites
This batch of 72 satellites will begin launching in 2026 and function as “the space backbone for the Joint All Domain Command and Control.”
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DIU chooses software company for $100M aircraft monitoring tech contract
Teleidoscope will work to apply its artificial intelligence-based system into video threads that watch for aircraft
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Pentagon mobilized to support tech startups after bank failure
The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank presents the Defense Department with both warnings and opportunities.
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Decrying Starlink's 'weaponization,' SpaceX cuts support for Ukrainian military
But Wednesday's explanation by the Elon Musk-founded company is at odds with its continuing work for the U.S. military.
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