AI for ATO: Pentagon seeks AI to streamline cumbersome cybersecurity processes
“Like Frank's Red Hot Sauce, we should be trying to put AI on anything that you can," said David McKeown, a senior cybersecurity official.
Pentagon moves AI office under R&D, raising fears it’s ‘demoting AI’
“When you pull an organization that was a direct report to the deputy secretary or secretary and move it somewhere else…the message to the force is loud and clear: This isn’t a priority,” said retired Lt. Gen. Jack Shanahan, who founded the predecessor to the current Chief Digital & AI Office (CDAO).
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More power, no moving parts: The quest to fly a rotating detonation engine
After decades of research, tests advance innovative engine for improved military effectors.
New Navy-Marine AI and data strategy coming this fall, seeking rapid adaptation for wartime
To be ready for a potential war with China, said DoN CDAO Stuart Wagner, the Department of the Navy needs to access and analyze the masses of sensor data currently languishing aboard its aircraft, warships, and other frontline platforms.
Johns Hopkins is building classified versions of its AI wargaming tools for DoD, IC
Developed by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab, the GenWar and SAGE wargaming systems take different approaches to exploiting generative AI while guarding against its tendency to make stuff up.
How the Pentagon plays into Trump’s sprawling artificial intelligence ‘Action Plan’
America's AI Action Plan features 19 recommendations that involve the DoD, including the creation of a "virtual proving ground."
Army upgrades policy, technology to secure GenAI
The Army banned early government Large Language Models because they lacked features of the new Army Enterprise LLM Workspace, Army CIO Leonel Garciga told Breaking Defense in an exclusive interview.
Biotech boosters win big in both HASC, SASC defense policy bills for FY26
Both the House and Senate Armed Services Committees voted to streamline Pentagon procurement of biologically-derived materials, from first aid treatments to novel explosives.
Anthropic, Google and xAI win $200M each from Pentagon AI chief for ‘agentic AI’
The three new contracts come on top of last month’s equal award to OpenAI, bringing the Chief Digital & AI Officer’s investment in cutting-edge commercial “frontier AI” to a total of $800 million.