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☢️ 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.

Dallas Hartley
Dallas Hartley
🧠 U.S. Army awards Salesforce $5.6B contract for modernization push

🧠 U.S. Army awards Salesforce $5.6B contract for modernization push

The U.S. Army awarded Salesforce a potential $5.6 billion contract to support enterprise IT modernization, data integration, and readiness initiatives across the Department of the Army.

Dallas Hartley
Dallas Hartley
💥 Pentagon releases National Defense Strategy, with homeland defense as top priority

💥 Pentagon releases National Defense Strategy, with homeland defense as top priority

The Pentagon’s unclassified 2026 National Defense Strategy elevates homeland defense as the department’s top priority, ahead of the Indo-Pacific, and signals allies should expect sharper burden-sharing expectations.

Dallas Hartley
Dallas Hartley
🥽 NATO Preps AI-Driven Augmented Reality Headborne System for Field Trials

🥽 NATO Preps AI-Driven Augmented Reality Headborne System for Field Trials

A new head-mounted augmented reality system—the Field Operator HUD—is being developed by Distance Technologies to improve battlefield visualization for military vehicle operators.

Dallas Hartley
Dallas Hartley
🤖 MQ-20 Avenger Drone Demos Autonomous Intercept of Piloted Aircraft

🤖 MQ-20 Avenger Drone Demos Autonomous Intercept of Piloted Aircraft

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems said its MQ-20 Avenger completed demonstrations showing it can autonomously perform an airborne intercept.

Dallas Hartley
Dallas Hartley
🌎 Trump Calls for “Immediate Negotiations” for Greenland, Ties Island to “Golden Dome”

🌎 Trump Calls for “Immediate Negotiations” for Greenland, Ties Island to “Golden Dome”

Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, President Donald Trump called for “immediate negotiations” to acquire Greenland, framing the island as a strategic national security imperative.

Dallas Hartley
Dallas Hartley
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