AWS and Anduril debuted a co-product pairing AWS Outposts with Anduril’s Menace-I ruggedized mobile data centers, delivering cloud-grade compute, storage, and AI at the tactical edge.

The offering reaches Pentagon users through the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability Marketplace, the storefront for pre-vetted commercial cloud services on a multibillion-dollar contract vehicle.

Near-term uses include shipborne AI and bandwidth-constrained missions, aligning with the military’s shift toward dispersed units in connectivity-denied environments such as Operation Epic Fury.

Texas-based Cyberhill Partners built the Biosurveillance Information Platform, an AI-enabled hub that consolidates biological threat detection, assessment, and response tools that were once scattered across multiple systems.

BIP runs on the Defense Innovation Unit’s ServiceNow AI platform, with Cyberhill adding data integration and mission-specific AI to give commanders a common picture of biological risks.

Planned features include foreign-language report translation, automated disease classification, and predictive outbreak models that help commanders position vaccines and resources before conditions worsen.

Teledyne FLIR OEM launched Prism Ground ISR, an AI software stack that detects, classifies, and tracks threats for ground-based intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance missions.

The software uses turbulence mitigation, dehazing, and super-resolution to sharpen infrared imagery, and it classifies up to 15 object classes and distinguishes military vehicle types in cluttered scenes.

Built for rapid integration with FLIR’s Boson+ and Neutrino cameras and third-party sensors, it extends the Prism line beyond counter-drone into tactical ground perception.

Marines from several nations trained alongside U.S. forces at Marine Corps Base Hawaii, running live-fire drills, room clearing, and infantry skills during Exercise Rim of the Pacific.

This year’s RIMPAC brought together 30 countries under the theme “partners: integrated and prepared,” with Mexican and South Korean Marines training alongside the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit.

Commanders framed the interoperability as preparation for coalition warfare, stressing that forces cannot afford to meet allies for the first time during a crisis.

Israel is pursuing what Defense Minister Israel Katz called the world’s first space-based laser weapon, capable of intercepting threats from orbit, though he offered no timeline.

Katz said no country can currently mount attacks in space, with reports suggesting Rafael and Elbit Systems are exploring ways to adapt the ground-based Iron Beam for use in orbit.

Potential missions include targeting hostile satellites, intercepting threats, and clearing debris, as China and Russia advance their own directed-energy and counter-space programs.

AWS launched Secret Cloud for Industry, the first cloud built to run contractor-owned classified workloads up to Secret level, cutting provisioning from months to days.

Northrop Grumman is the first contractor to deploy on the Impact Level 6 environment, and AWS added up to $20 million in migration accelerator funding.

AWS also pledged up to $1 billion in cloud credits for the 18 intelligence agencies through 2030 and $50 billion to expand secret AI infrastructure.

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