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⚛️ Pentagon ordered to field quantum sensors by 2028

Jun 23, 2026

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⚛️ Pentagon ordered to field quantum sensors by 2028

Leonardo flew its first crewed-uncrewed teaming trial while the Pentagon's arms sales overhaul and a new supercomputer advance.

Dallas Hartley
Dallas Hartley
🔬 Ukraine's new archive includes a captured Kinzhal missile

Jun 22, 2026

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🔬 Ukraine's new archive includes a captured Kinzhal missile

A Qatari-donated Air Force One began commissioning flights as Safran unveiled an ITAR-free thermal sight for troops.

Dallas Hartley
Dallas Hartley
🤖 CISA now has full access to Anthropic's Mythos Preview

Jun 19, 2026

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🤖 CISA now has full access to Anthropic's Mythos Preview

The Army stood up a Pacific multidomain command as the Navy moves to commission AI experts as officers.

Dallas Hartley
Dallas Hartley
✈️ Anduril and General Atomics win CCA production contracts

Jun 18, 2026

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✈️ Anduril and General Atomics win CCA production contracts

Eurosatory also delivered a backpackable combat robot, a thermal-sighted M72 launcher, and Renault's drone-controlling 4Troop military vehicle.

Dallas Hartley
Dallas Hartley
🤖 ChatGPT reaches 3 million Pentagon users in July

Jun 17, 2026

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🤖 ChatGPT reaches 3 million Pentagon users in July

BAE and Ondas unveil networked battle systems at Eurosatory while the FBI foils a White House drone plot.

Dallas Hartley
Dallas Hartley
💥 General Atomics' artillery round hit a target 74 miles out

Jun 16, 2026

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💥 General Atomics' artillery round hit a target 74 miles out

KNDS and Leonardo showed new tanks at Eurosatory while Teledyne fielded a 450-gram vehicle-launched drone.

Dallas Hartley
Dallas Hartley
🤖 Anthropic disables Fable 5 and Mythos 5 under export order

Jun 15, 2026

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🤖 Anthropic disables Fable 5 and Mythos 5 under export order

Thales fits a drone-killing LiDAR seeker to its laser rocket as Shield AI flies an autonomous interceptor in Spain.

Dallas Hartley
Dallas Hartley
🚀 Saronic and Castelion will launch hypersonics from drone boats

Jun 12, 2026

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🚀 Saronic and Castelion will launch hypersonics from drone boats

Ukraine's AI chief forecasts a war of operating systems as senators back a four-star command for autonomous weapons.

Dallas Hartley
Dallas Hartley
🛰️ Russia's Cosmos 2546 traced to Europe's GPS outages

Jun 11, 2026

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🛰️ Russia's Cosmos 2546 traced to Europe's GPS outages

Qorvo shrank a 10-watt radar to chip scale as researchers tied Europe's GPS blackouts to a Russian satellite.

Dallas Hartley
Dallas Hartley
🇮🇷 Trump vows fresh strikes as Iran war passes 100 days

Jun 10, 2026

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🇮🇷 Trump vows fresh strikes as Iran war passes 100 days

Iceye quadrupled to a $12B valuation as CISA moves to triage cyber threats by real-world consequence.

Dallas Hartley
Dallas Hartley
🤖 Trump orders security agencies to field AI faster

Jun 9, 2026

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🤖 Trump orders security agencies to field AI faster

An Apache crew was pulled from waters off Oman as the Army moved mortar fire control onto a smartphone.

Dallas Hartley
Dallas Hartley
💰 Allen Control Systems raises $200M at a $2.2B valuation

Jun 8, 2026

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💰 Allen Control Systems raises $200M at a $2.2B valuation

A House bill pushes the Navy to field drone boats faster as the Pentagon readies an AI-focused cyber strategy.

Dallas Hartley
Dallas Hartley
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