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  1. US Army's Project Convergence drill falls short on AI battlefield tech

    The U.S. Army's Project Convergence exercise in July brought roughly 9,700 soldiers to Fort Irwin in the Mojave Desert for a 10-day, round-the-clock simulated battle that briefing materials billed as a look at an "AI-enabled battlefield." Reporting from the event describes Anduril drones forced to land by heat near 110°F, a Theiss drone that took about 10 minutes to launch, newly purchased communications gear that fell short, and defects in augmented-reality headsets; officials said much of the contracted technology remains experimental. The piece also notes Defense Secretary Hegseth's push to turn the Army into an AI-driven force with drones and 3D printing, and that the AI-assisted Next-Generation Command and Control System is budgeted at $4 billion this year.

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  2. Gallatin AI raises $50M Series A for military logistics platform Navigator

    Gallatin AI, a developer of military logistics software, announced a $50 million Series A with participation from 8VC, Silent Ventures and several others; the El Segundo, California-based company says it previously raised a $15 million seed round in 2024, bringing total funding to $70 million. Its Navigator platform aggregates supply-chain records from multiple systems into a standardized form, then uses AI to build dashboards, map overlays and forecasts of when supplies will run out. Gallatin says the U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force are customers, and that the platform is also available to the Defense Department's commercial logistics partners.

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  3. CSIS: U.S. federal AI contracts reach $4.1B, over half lack governance clauses

    A CSIS review of SAM.gov solicitations and USAspending contract records found that U.S. federal agencies signed 2,255 identifiable AI-related contracts in fiscal years 2019–2025, with cumulative obligated amounts of $4.1 billion; the Department of Defense accounted for about 82.8% of obligations and 63.8% of contracts, and annual obligations reached $1.162 billion in FY2025. Among the 75 AI-related solicitations sampled, 41 (54.7%) contained no confirmed governance clause; where clauses existed they centred on performance measurement — benchmarking appeared in 37% and data rights in 35% — while audit access, red-teaming and incident reporting appeared in just 9%, 5% and 4%, and monitoring and human-oversight clauses each appeared in 5%. On the supply side, 1,250 vendors held contracts, 66.2% of them only one, the top three took 30.4% of net obligations, and Palantir and Scale AI together held under 1% of contracts but about $597 million, roughly 15% of obligations.

    虎嗅 AI · 🔥 0
  4. Trump Names Jay Clayton to Lead New ‘Super Intelligence Force’

    President Donald Trump announced the creation of a federal “Super Intelligence Force” and appointed Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton to lead it. The task force is expected to assess AI’s risks and opportunities within 120 days and recommend the federal government’s role, while coordinating with AI companies, consumers, public-interest groups and critical-infrastructure providers.

    Engadget AI · 🔥 0

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