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The Department of the Air Force issued a broad agency announcement seeking white papers on AI and distributed operation concepts to support next-gen C2 The BAA, which closes on August 30, 2028, could turn into a $99 million contract award Air Force Materiel Command and the Air Force Research have been named as potential contracting activities The Department of the Air Force has released a broad agency announcement for a potential contract to study and develop artificial intelligence...

CISA has created ANCHOR-CI to expand information sharing and coordination across critical infrastructure stakeholders ANCHOR-CI includes the establishment of four types of councils The 2026 Homeland Security Summit will highlight AI, cyber defense and more The Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has established the Alliance of National Councils for Homeland Operational Resilience – Critical Infrastructure, or ANCHOR-CI, to help expand information...

The NNSA’s Brandon Williams is calling for faster technology acquisition to keep pace with rapid AI advancement The agency is expanding partnerships with commercial cloud providers, including AWS, under the Genesis Mission Genesis Mission connects DOE national laboratories, universities and industry through a shared computing platform National Nuclear Security Administration Administrator Brandon Williams is urging the federal government to accelerate technology procurement and expand...

NASA is seeking industry feedback on a draft solicitation to fund prototypes in five technology areas key to sustained lunar operations The Lunar Enabling Infrastructure Accelerator covers vertical solar arrays, oxygen production from lunar soil, radioisotope generators, in-space manufacturing and nanomaterials NASA wants awardees to build and demonstrate prototypes that push the technologies toward readiness levels 5 to 6 NASA has asked industry to weigh in on a draft solicitation that would...

CIA Director John Ratcliffe highlighted some milestones in the agency’s commitment to accelerating the acquisition of AI and other technologies He mentioned the new Office of Corporate Partnerships and the Directorate of Mission Systems, previously the Directorate of Digital Innovation Ratcliffe said their centralized vetting approach is showing promise in shortening their procurement timeline CIA Director and 2025 Wash100 inductee John Ratcliffe announced that the agency has reorganized some...

The Navy has designated two mandatory enterprise IT services: the Orion DevSecOps platform for software development and the Naval C-SCRM capability for supply chain risk monitoring Orion is now the sole authorized environment for Git-based software work The C-SCRM service gives users vendor risk assessments, a shared intelligence library and decision support across the acquisition lifecycle The Department of the Navy designated two enterprise IT services in memorandums issued in June,...

OpenAI and PNNL have teamed up to assess AI coding agents for environmental review drafting tasks DraftNEPABench supports federal efforts to speed up environmental impact statement development and permitting workflows The benchmark includes 102 real-world test cases from environmental impact statements across 19 federal agencies The Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and OpenAI have partnered to evaluate how artificial intelligence coding agents could assist federal...

War Secretary Pete Hegseth established the DRPM-UxS, a new direct-report position to oversee all Pentagon drone and counter-drone efforts The role covers UAS groups 1–3, surface and underwater vessels, ground systems, AI and swarming software, counter-drone, and drone and counter-drone marketplaces Senior Pentagon officials will discuss military drone and autonomy efforts at the Potomac Officers Club’s 2026 Air and Space Summit on July 30 and the 2026 Navy Summit on Aug.

Brookhaven Lab and AWS are partnering to scale the AI-powered GridSearch project nationwide GridSearch uses AI to speed up power grid interconnection studies while maintaining accuracy The platform helps identify optimal connection points for data centers, energy projects and manufacturing facilities The Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory and Amazon Web Services have partnered to advance GridSearch, an artificial intelligence-powered project designed to streamline the...

OPM and the Department of War have launched War Force to recruit software engineers for national security missions The initiative will fill hundreds of engineering roles supporting defense modernization efforts Officials are seeking candidates with experience in AI, machine learning, automation and operational software The Office of Personnel Management and the Department of War have introduced War Force, a recruitment initiative aimed at connecting software engineers with technical positions...