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In February, the Trump administration designated Anthropic a “supply chain risk” and blacklisted the artificial intelligence firm from federal contracting after it refused to loosen restrictions on the use of its models for mass domestic surveillance and fully autonomous weapons. Nearly a year later, however, it is still unclear whether the Pentagon has found an…

Va.Leidos announced that it signed a new $95 million, five-year contract with the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) to use artificial intelligence (AI) automation to streamline and accelerate the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) asset-management system that more than 50 federal agencies use to manage more 80 million items of government property, collectively valued at more…

A new arm of The Pentagon has been quietly set up to aid the US military in attacking foreign technology programs that could pose a threat to US superiority.

The Pentagon office tapped in 2022 to oversee the military’s responsible use of artificial intelligence had filled just three of its 10 authorized positions for the mission as of February 2026, even as the department pursues a strategy to accelerate AI development, a government watchdog found.

The Pentagon is launching a pilot program that will use artificial intelligence to manage its classification processes and handling of sensitive military information, according to a memorandum reviewed by DefenseScoop and sources familiar. 

The US Department of Defence is no longer using Anthropic’s AI tools, an official has told the BBC, months after it designated the company a supply chain risk on national security grounds.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth used a “State of the Force” address on Wednesday to launch a new effort to study how war may be fought as tech advances rapidly. It’s being called Project Meridian.

The U.S. government is reportedly alerting millions of current and former U.S. military service members and staff that their personal information was stolen during a months-long breach of the Pentagon’s personnel records, the latest in a spate of thefts involving federal workers’ data in recent months.

FILE – Dario Amodei, CEO and co-founder of Anthropic, attends the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Jan. 23, 2025. /Markus Schreiber, File)

The US government wants to spend $30.3 million over the next five years on an improved form of lie detector, according to a Department of Defense budget request. The program, called “Polygraph+” or “Polygraph Next”, will focus on scoring algorithms that use artificial intelligence and machine learning and on a technique called “standoff sensing”, which…