Palantir's Maven Smart System (MSS) was used to help plan and coordinate all 13,000 airstrikes during Operation Epic Fury's 38-day air campaign against Iran, with classified usage up 89% month-over-month and peak daily token consumption hitting approximately 20 billion, a 4,425% surge.

Pentagon Chief Digital and AI Officer (CDAO) Cameron Stanley described troops as having an "insatiable appetite" for AI tools, citing MSS's ability to synthesize video, satellite imagery, and intelligence reports into a live battlespace picture, thereby accelerating mission planning and targeting.

Stanley's biggest stated concern is compute capacity, not the adversary: the Department is actively exploring ways to scale infrastructure at every classification level to meet surging demand from individual operators up to senior commanders.

The Navy's newly released FY27 Shipbuilding Plan proposes targeted legislative changes in the FY27 NDAA to authorize construction of up to two auxiliary ships and fabrication of non-sensitive hull modules at allied overseas shipyards for surface combatants, framing it as a supplement to domestic production rather than a replacement.

The plan targets a 450-ship fleet by 2031, requests $65.8 billion for shipbuilding in FY27, and confirms the Trump-class battleship will be nuclear-powered with a goal of 15 vessels in inventory by 2056 and a first delivery slated for 2036.

Acting Secretary of the Navy Hung Cao characterized the plan as a "Golden Fleet" roadmap; foreign work would be limited to non-sensitive structures while US yards retain responsibility for classified systems integration, final assembly, testing, and activation.

The Army awarded Anduril a contract to develop a Battle Manager prototype for the Indo-Pacific theater, a command-and-control (C2) platform that uses Lattice software to combine data from separate, existing missile defense systems into a single, continuously updated operating picture.

The platform addresses a known readiness gap: commanders currently toggle between disconnected systems to build a threat picture, a process that costs precious seconds during active engagements; Lattice assigns specific observation tasks to each sensor and surfaces engagement cues in near real time.

Anduril confirmed the Battle Manager effort is distinct from the Army's concurrent "Right to Integrate" hackathon, in which the company is also participating alongside eight other defense contractors to push multi-system data interoperability.

US Cyber Command (CYBERCOM) is requesting $138 million for AI for cyber operations in FY27, a 2,660% increase from the $5 million requested in FY26; the funding will scale AI task forces across the full command after pilots within the elite Cyber National Mission Force.

The funding targets four mission areas: ISR analytics; offensive cyber automation (including AI-enabled target development and reduced planning cycle times); defensive malware analysis for hunt-forward missions; and foundational AI infrastructure, including access to large language models at multiple classification levels.

Budget documents explicitly cite China's AI investments in cloud and advanced analytics as the strategic driver; CYBERCOM also stood up a new one-star Chief of AI position, held by Brig. Gen. Reid Novotny since November.

New York-based Anadyr Horizon launched "Red Horizon," a simulation platform that models how military, political, and economic decisions cascade into geopolitical crises; the company claims the platform modeled Iran's war-escalation dynamics and anticipated core patterns of Russia's invasion of Ukraine approximately 75 days before it began.

Built on the company's North Star platform with Agentic Systems Intelligence, the tool provides tailored simulations across political, economic, and security domains, with on-demand analyst support for applying outputs to strategic planning and institutional decision-making.

The platform's methodology draws on over a decade of simulation research at Harvard University, where it was reportedly used to train senior military officers, diplomats, and policymakers on how decisions compound under pressure.

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