The company, famous for producing mid-range drones that proved effective in the early days of the Ukraine conflict, said the K2 fits within its “cost-effective defense solutions strategy."
CEO Dario Amodei said he would still sue to overturn the designation of Anthropic as a “supply chain risk,” but he said the company was “having productive conversations with the Department of War” — which Pentagon CTO Emil Michael promptly denied.
The Pentagon announced two key hires for data and cybersecurity positions.
The Pentagon has threatened to deem the AI firm a supply chain risk, something CEO Dario Amodei says is contradictory.
"What we're not going to do is let any one company dictate a new set of policies above and beyond what Congress has passed," Under Secretary Emil Michael said of the ongoing impasse between the Pentagon and Anthropic.
Last year Forterra was also awarded a contract to integrate its autonomy stack, dubbed AutoDrive, into the JLTVs for the ROGUE Fires program.
OpenAI’s ChatGPT joins xAI’s Grok and Google Gemini on the two-month-old website, which now claims 1.1 million unique users and rising across the Department of Defense.
Adversary use of AI is necessitating changes to how the DoD trains its cyber warriors.
All too often, DoD Technology Transfer director Steve Luckowski told Breaking Defense, “we build fragile supply chains we're the only customer for.”
Marcia Holmes, DoD deputy director for Golden Dome, said AI and autonomy will "change how we deploy and use our weapons."
After military operators fly the drones, the department plans to award deals totaling $150 million.
“It’s something that really wouldn't be possible 12 months ago,” Picogrid cofounder Martin Slosarik told Breaking Defense.
The six men range from a former Amazon exec to a biologist who studied jellyfish stinging Navy divers, but all have extensive experience in the Defense Department’s tech apparatus.
“We love this conveyor belt of the [carrier] strike group generation process,” Adm. Daryl Caudle said. “Submariners, we do not share that vision. Now there's a submariner at the helm here.”