Transcom pursues AI to enhance patient movement ops and mass casualty response
U.S. Transportation Command officials briefed DefenseScoop on the new Mass Casualty Operations Toolkit and other AI-enabled efforts they’re tackling with MIT.
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Airmen practice patient movement and transport procedures onto an ambulance during Exercise Ultimate Caduceus 2024 at Travis Air Force Base, California, June 20, 2024. Ultimate Caduceus is an annual patient movement training event designed to test the capabilities of and provide field training to aeromedical evacuation and critical care air transport teams, medical staging systems, and interagency partners involved in the reception and onward movement functions for global patient movement. (DOD photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Anita Chebahtah) AI -
U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth hosts a drone demonstration at the Pentagon, July 10, 2025. (U.S. Marine Corps Photo by Lance Cpl. Isaac Llanez Delgado) Tech Hegseth directive on ‘unleashing U.S. military drone dominance’ includes deadlines for major overhauls
Hegseth referred to uncrewed systems as “the biggest battlefield innovation in a generation.”
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President Donald Trump, joined by Republican lawmakers, signs the One, Big Beautiful Bill Act into law during an Independence Day military family picnic on the South Lawn of the White House on July 04, 2025. (Photo by Samuel Corum/Getty Images) Cyber GOP domestic policy bill includes hundreds of millions for military cyber
Democrats have critiqued the bill for not protecting funds for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.
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Participants in the Army’s Cyber Flag exercise in Suffolk, Virginia, in June 2019. (U.S. Cyber Command photo) Cyber Cyber Command creates new AI program in fiscal 2026 budget
The funding follows a push from Congress for Cybercom to develop an AI roadmap.
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The Pentagon (Getty Images) AI Pentagon’s AI office eliminates CTO directorate in pursuit of ‘efficiencies’
It’s unclear how employees, responsibilities and investments were dispersed following the termination.
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A U.S. Army Soldier assigned to 1st Armored Division inspects an antenna as he prepares for Project Convergence – Capstone 5 (PC-C5) at Fort Irwin, Calif., in early March 2025. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Kelvin Johnson) Tech Army plans to spend roughly $3B on next-gen command and control in fiscal 2026
Funding to support Next Generation Command and Control will come across several funding lines that have been realigned.
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U.S. Soldiers assigned to 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division set up a command post with the M1301 Infantry Squad Vehicle during exercise Spectrum Blitz 25 at the Hohenfels Training Area, Germany, April 11, 2025. Spectrum Blitz 25 is an exercise that provides an opportunity to train Electronic Warfare Teams in Electronic Warfare Training Strategies at the platoon level. (U.S. Army photos by Sgt. Collin Mackall) Tech Army’s new budget proposal invests in electromagnetic force protection capabilities
As the Army continues its long journey to modernize and rebuild its electronic warfare arsenal, the FY26 budget request aims to invest in a raft of capabilities to protect from enemy jamming and enable better maneuver within the spectrum and on the ground.
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A rendering of what someone using the new Project Overmatch capability known as Maven would look like. A unified tactical display that provides insight on vessels across the world, the Maven program overlays real-time ship readiness and sustainment data right at the user’s fingertips by utilizing artificial intelligence. It was created by Project Overmatch and Palantir in collaboration. (Image found on DVIDS as stock photo courtesy of Palantir) Emerging Tech Navy CTO unveils list of priority areas for tech investment
The Department of the Navy’s CTO issued a new memo to guide investment and modernization efforts for the Navy and Marine Corps.
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Members of the 56th Air and Space Communications Squadron at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam operate cyber systems using a Enhanced communications flyaway kit during the Global Information Dominance Experiment 3 and Architect Demonstration Evaluation 5 at Alpena Combat Readiness Training Center, Alpena, Michigan, July, 12, 2021. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Amy Picard) IT DOD CIO solicits industry to inform revamp of ‘cumbersome’ cybersecurity risk framework
The Pentagon CIO is seeking industry feedback on a new construct that will modernize the notoriously burdensome Risk Management Framework.
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(Getty Images) AI Military vets patent hallucination-resistant, explainable AI technology
With the patent, the leaders behind Data² want to help open the black box of AI to inject more trust in the adoption and use of the technology, particularly in high-stakes mission sets like defense, intelligence and national security.