🤖 ‘Grok Ethics Are Out’: Pentagon Unveils New AI Acceleration Strategy

📬 In Today’s Defense Brief

🚁 Army Says First MV-75 Tilt-Rotor Helicopter to Be Delivered by End of 2026 for Testing

🤖 ‘Grok Ethics Are Out’: Pentagon Unveils New AI Acceleration Strategy

🎯 Lockheed Martin Successfully Flies NGSRI Interceptor

🌊 Textron Reveals Fifth-Generation Uncrewed Surface Vessel Concept

🚀 L3Harris to Spin Out Rocket Motor Business With Pentagon as Anchor Investor

🎱 Plus 10 other news stories you may like

📰 Full Breakdown

🚁 Army Says First MV-75 Tilt-Rotor Helicopter to Be Delivered by End of 2026 for Testing — Read More

• The U.S. Army says the first MV-75 tilt-rotor aircraft under the Future Long Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA) program is on track for delivery by the end of 2026, enabling the service to begin formal developmental testing. The MV-75, built by Bell, is intended to replace the UH-60 Black Hawk and dramatically extend range, speed, and survivability for air assault operations.

• Army officials emphasized that the initial delivery will support envelope expansion, flight testing, and integration work rather than immediate operational use. Early testing will focus on performance benchmarks, maintainability, and digital backbone integration, validating assumptions made during the competitive FLRAA selection process.

• The timeline reflects confidence in Bell’s digital engineering approach and is seen as a bellwether for whether Army aviation modernization can move faster than legacy programs. FLRAA is one of the service’s top modernization priorities, central to future distributed and contested operations.

🤖 ‘Grok Ethics Are Out’: Pentagon Unveils New AI Acceleration Strategy — Read More

• Pentagon leaders signaled a sharp shift in tone on artificial intelligence, emphasizing speed and battlefield advantage over extended ethical deliberation as they roll out a new AI acceleration strategy. Officials argued that excessive process and debate have slowed adoption while adversaries rapidly integrate AI into military systems.

• The strategy focuses on accelerating the adoption of AI models in operational use, expanding access to commercial models, increasing compute availability, and reducing bureaucratic barriers to experimentation. Leaders stressed that ethical considerations remain, but should not block deployment of tools that could save lives or deliver a decisive advantage.

• The remarks underscore a broader reorientation toward wartime urgency, with AI framed as foundational to future command-and-control, targeting, logistics, and decision support across domains. The Pentagon appears willing to accept a higher risk to avoid falling behind technologically.

🎯 Lockheed Martin Successfully Flies NGSRI Interceptor — Read More

• Lockheed Martin completed a successful flight of its Next Generation Short-Range Interceptor (NGSRI), marking a milestone in U.S. Army efforts to modernize air and missile defense against evolving threats such as cruise missiles, UAS, and rockets.

• The test validated key aspects of the interceptor’s guidance, control, and propulsion systems, according to company statements, and supports the Army’s push for faster, more affordable interceptors capable of operating in dense threat environments.

• NGSRI is intended to complement existing systems by improving reaction time and engagement capacity, particularly against maneuvering and low-altitude threats. The flight signals progress as the Army looks to close short-range air defense gaps exposed by recent conflicts.

🌊 Textron Reveals Fifth-Generation Uncrewed Surface Vessel Concept — Read More

• Textron Systems unveiled a “fifth-generation” uncrewed surface vessel concept designed around modularity, autonomy, and multi-mission flexibility, reflecting lessons from maritime autonomy experimentation and real-world operational feedback.

• The company says the design emphasizes longer endurance, reduced signatures, and scalable payload integration, allowing the same hull to support ISR, electronic warfare, logistics, or strike missions depending on configuration.

• Textron positions the USV as aligned with the Navy and allied interests in distributed maritime operations, where large numbers of unmanned platforms complicate adversary targeting and extend sensing and effects across wide ocean areas.

🚀 L3Harris to Spin Out Rocket Motor Business With Pentagon as Anchor Investor — Read More

• L3Harris announced plans to spin out its solid rocket motor business into a standalone company, with the Pentagon expected to serve as an anchor investor to ensure stable production capacity for critical munitions.

• The move is framed as a response to surging demand for rocket motors across missile defense, hypersonics, and precision strike programs, as well as concerns about industrial base fragility and limited surge capacity.

• Defense officials see the arrangement as a way to secure long-term supply, attract private capital, and accelerate output without fully nationalizing production. It reflects growing government willingness to shape defense markets more directly.

🌏 Other Important News

✈️ Air

• Pennsylvania Air National Guard airmen train in water survival to boost readiness — Read More

• China reveals new J-20 fighter variant with maritime strike capability — Read More

• Driscoll eyes expanded drone intelligence-sharing deals after US-UK agreement — Read More

🌊 Sea

• Saildrone, Lockheed Martin integrate combat-tested payloads on Surveyor USV — Read More

• HII demonstrates automated launch and recovery of REMUS AUV from Sea Launcher — Read More

• SECNAV: U.S. shipbuilders must hire 250,000 workers over next decade for “Golden Fleet” — Read More

🛡️ Land

• Condor anti-aircraft tank concept targets mobile SHORAD gap — Read More

• Israel’s Omnisys rolls out layered counter-drone solution — Read More

🧠 C2

• Hegseth backs AI tech hubs and DoD reorganization push — Read More

• INDOPACOM commander outlines three meta-trends reshaping warfare — Read More

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