OpenAI will make ChatGPT available on GenAI.mil, the Pentagon's enterprise generative AI platform, in early July, a company official said at the Defense One Tech Summit.

The deployment reaches more than 3 million defense personnel and is certified for controlled unclassified information and Impact Level 5, running on isolated government cloud infrastructure.

ChatGPT joins Google's Gemini and xAI on the platform, which already counts over 1.3 million regular users, intensifying competition for sensitive defense AI work.

BAE Systems launched a Next Generation Indirect Fire Control System at Eurosatory, a digital capability designed to speed targeting and connect individual guns to wider sensor networks.

Built on an open architecture with a sovereign UK baseline configuration, the system enables artillery data to move across formations rather than remain locked within a single battery.

BAE says the system will be ready for demonstration this year, reflecting a broader Eurosatory push toward networked, multi-domain fires.

Ondas will launch LADOS, a Layered Autonomous Defense Operational command-and-control system, at Eurosatory, integrating its sensors, drones, robotic platforms, and effectors into a single operational core.

LADOS serves as the execution layer beneath SkyWeaver, the company's Palantir-powered agentic AI, translating mission plans into coordinated action across the sense, decide, and execute cycle.

The system reflects an industry shift toward systems-of-systems architectures that reduce operator workload and tie disparate autonomous platforms under unified command.

The FBI thwarted an alleged plot to attack the June 14 UFC event at the White House with explosive drones, according to federal records.

Whether those arrested could have executed such a complex strike remains unclear, but the case underscores a documented and growing drone threat to homeland sites.

The plot sharpens scrutiny of counter-drone defenses around fixed, high-value locations, including the White House grounds, which are now undergoing fortification.

The Pentagon invoked the Defense Production Act to allow munitions suppliers to coordinate, or "essentially collude," on production plans without violating antitrust law, a senior official said.

A June 11 presidential memo authorizes voluntary agreements to break supply-chain bottlenecks, allowing officials to bring competing solid-rocket motor and munitions makers together in one room.

The move aims to accelerate stockpile rebuilding after operations against Iran and to formalize cross-company coordination that current antitrust rules otherwise prohibit.

Virginia startup Enabled Intelligence released a dataset drawn from more than half a million hours of drone footage from the Ukraine conflict, pre-labeled and ready for AI model training.

The full-motion video spans aerial object detection, vehicle classification, and ground activity across real combat conditions that simulations cannot replicate, the company's CEO said.

Available to approved users in the US, Ukraine, and NATO nations, the data could speed development of drones that autonomously recognize and strike targets.

The Defense Innovation Unit awarded Mach Industries a contract under the Runway Independent Maritime Expeditionary Strike program for a long-range drone that launches without the need for large flight decks.

Mach's Atlas aircraft, built with Whisper Aero's JetFoil propulsion, targets a one-way range of at least 1,400 nautical miles carrying 1,000-pound munitions.

The Navy wants the drone to operate from destroyers, easing reliance on limited single-use missile magazines for sustained long-range strikes at sea.

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