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🏟️ DHS taps Fortem to defend U.S. World Cup venues from drones

🏟️ DHS taps Fortem to defend U.S. World Cup venues from drones

The Department of Homeland Security selected Fortem Technologies to help secure World Cup venues against potential drone threats.

Dallas Hartley
Dallas Hartley
🤖 ChatGPT will be available to 3 million military users on GenAI.mil

🤖 ChatGPT will be available to 3 million military users on GenAI.mil

The Pentagon is expanding generative AI access by making ChatGPT available to up to 3 million military users through GenAI.mil, positioning it as a scaled, enterprise-like rollout rather than a limited experiment.

Dallas Hartley
Dallas Hartley
🧠 CIA unveils new acquisition framework to speed tech adoption

🧠 CIA unveils new acquisition framework to speed tech adoption

The CIA announced a new acquisition framework designed to accelerate how quickly emerging technologies move from concept to operational use.

Dallas Hartley
Dallas Hartley
🧾 New “America First” arms transfer strategy prioritizes key weapons for export

🧾 New “America First” arms transfer strategy prioritizes key weapons for export

The administration is rolling out a revised arms transfer strategy that emphasizes an “America First” approach, including the creation of a priority list of weapons systems to promote for foreign sales.

Dallas Hartley
Dallas Hartley
🐝 Palladyne demonstrates heterogeneous drone swarm operations

🐝 Palladyne demonstrates heterogeneous drone swarm operations

Palladyne unveiled a drone swarm capability that integrates multiple unmanned platforms with different roles, sensors, and performance characteristics operating cooperatively.

Dallas Hartley
Dallas Hartley
☢️ For the First Time in Decades, the U.S. and Russia Have No Limits on Nuclear Weapons

☢️ For the First Time in Decades, the U.S. and Russia Have No Limits on Nuclear Weapons

New START’s limits, notifications, and inspection regime have lapsed after the treaty’s final extension, leaving the world’s two largest nuclear powers without binding caps for the first time in decades.

Dallas Hartley
Dallas Hartley
🤖 Picogrid wins $9M Air Force contract for AI-written counter-drone software

🤖 Picogrid wins $9M Air Force contract for AI-written counter-drone software

Picogrid won a $9 million Air Force contract to deliver counter-drone software largely written using artificial intelligence tools.

Dallas Hartley
Dallas Hartley
🧪 Pentagon forms new science & innovation board as research budgets tighten

🧪 Pentagon forms new science & innovation board as research budgets tighten

The Pentagon is standing up a new Science and Innovation Board to advise senior leaders on technology priorities as parts of the defense research budget face reductions.

Dallas Hartley
Dallas Hartley
🧠 Pentagon CTO taps six defense-tech veterans to lead critical technology areas

🧠 Pentagon CTO taps six defense-tech veterans to lead critical technology areas

The Pentagon’s chief technology officer announced six new senior technology leads and assigned them to oversee priority areas such as cyber, space, AI, and biotechnology.

Dallas Hartley
Dallas Hartley
💸 York Space Systems Goes Public in $629M IPO to Fund “Proliferation at Scale”

💸 York Space Systems Goes Public in $629M IPO to Fund “Proliferation at Scale”

York Space Systems raised $629 million in an upsized IPO, with CEO Dirk Wallinger framing the funding as a push to “proliferation at scale” by manufacturing satellites at an affordable cost.

Dallas Hartley
Dallas Hartley
🔐 U.S. developed non-kinetic cell ahead of Venezuela mission to push cyber ops

🔐 U.S. developed non-kinetic cell ahead of Venezuela mission to push cyber ops

U.S. military leaders told lawmakers that a “non-kinetic effects cell” was created to integrate cyber, electronic warfare, and other non-physical tools into planning and execution of global operations.

Dallas Hartley
Dallas Hartley
💸 Boeing takes $565M hit on KC-46 tanker

💸 Boeing takes $565M hit on KC-46 tanker

Boeing posted another $565M loss on KC-46 in Q4 2025, pushing total program losses to roughly $8B, per executives on an earnings call.

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Dallas Hartley
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