Meet VECTOR: An unofficial soldier-made AI tool the Army suspended pending a ‘compliance review’
VECTOR was created on Army Vantage, a Palantir-made platform intended to improve decision-making by meshing data repositories with machine learning.
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A member of the Rhode Island Army National Guard reviews a Soldier’s enlisted record brief (ERB) during a centralized promotion board, Feb. 12, 2025, Camp Fogarty, Rhode Island. Conducted without in-person candidates, the board relies heavily on accurate and well-written NCOERs (noncommissioned officer evaluation report) to fairly evaluate and score each promotion file. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Sgt. 1st Class Terry Rajsombath) AI -
A poster at the Pentagon, Dec. 12, 2025, lets employees know that a new artificial intelligence tool is available to use at the War Department, and that employees are highly encouraged to use it. (Credit: C. Todd Lopez, DOW) AI 5 out of 6 military branches have elevated GenAI.mil as their go-to enterprise AI platform
The Pentagon is tracking more than a million unique users on its new commercial generative AI platform, to date.
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A sign for the National Security Agency (NSA), US Cyber Command and Central Security Service, is seen near the visitor’s entrance to the headquarters of the National Security Agency (NSA) at Fort Meade, Maryland, February 14, 2018. (Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images) Cyber Pentagon leaders expect Cybercom 2.0 to help thwart Chinese actors ‘living off the land’
A digital tactic known as “living off the land” is a major concern for U.S. officials.
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U.S. Army Soldiers assigned to the 3rd Brigade, 10th Mountain Division operate a GhostX drone from a mobile laptop during Exercise Combined Resolve 25-1 at Hohenfels Training Area on Jan. 31, 2025. Combined Resolve is a US-led, NATO and partner-integrated exercise in the European Theater focused on combined arms interoperability. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Bryanne Vega) AI Army’s CamoGPT won’t be phased out as Pentagon embraces more commercial genAI products
The Army-managed platform is said to offer specialized AI tools that complement those on the GenAI.mil system.
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US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks alongside Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Dan Caine (R) during a meeting with Japanese Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi at the Pentagon in Washington, DC, on January 15, 2026. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP via Getty Images) Tech New U.S. defense strategy ‘barely mentions technology’
The 2026 NDS includes noticeably less technology callouts than its recent predecessors
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Sign with logo for Salesforce is visible on office tower in San Francisco, California, November 20, 2025. (Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images) Tech Salesforce lands $5.6B Army contract for data analytics, cloud capabilities
The tech provided under the deal could help lay the foundation for future agentic AI deployments, according to the vendor.
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U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Shelton Armstrong, a Robertsdale, Alabama native and a maintenance management chief with 2d Battalion, 2d Marine Regiment, 2d Marine Division, works on his computer on Marine Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, Oct. 1, 2024. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Brian Bolin Jr.) AI Marine Corps makes GenAI.mil its official enterprise AI platform as older systems get sidelined
“Until this point, there was no enterprise solution for USMC users,” Capt. Christopher Clark, the service’s AI lead, told DefenseScoop. “GenAI.mil is the first true enterprise solution for Marines to use generative AI.”
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U.S. Coast Guard Petty Officer 3rd Class Carl Taylor, an information systems technician assigned to Electronics Support Detachment Mayport, Florida, reimages newly assigned laptops delivered to Coast Guard Sector Jacksonville, Florida, April 5, 2022. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Barry Bena) AI Coast Guard hustling to refine and scale genAI ‘Ask Hamilton’ prototype
The Coast Guard’s cloud, data and AI branch chief Cmdr. Jonathan White shared new details about his team’s plan ahead for the platform.
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Zero trust security system big data concept rendering (Getty Images) Cyber GDIT tapped to deliver zero-trust security solution at nearly 200 Air Force bases
The $120 million task order will enable GDIT to implement zero-trust cybersecurity controls at facilities located across the world.
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A helicopter at Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona flies as part of an exercise that developed a workable algorithm to help facilitate the acoustic trilateration of air to surface missiles and other helicopter rounds collected from arrays of microphones and hydrophones on the post’s highly instrumented ranges. (U.S. Army photo). AI Army moves to assess AI’s ‘unpredictable behaviors’ and safeguard autonomous systems
The new deal is for the Generative Unwanted Activity Recognition and Defense (GUARD) prototype project, which intends to detect unpredictable AI behavior, “ultimately ensuring that these next generation autonomous capabilities are trustworthy and effective for future military operations,” officials wrote in an award notice.