Pentagon sets procedures for AI-assisted software development
The guidance on “Accelerated Mission Software” was signed by DOD CIO Kirsten Davies on Aug. 31 and went into effect Sept. 8.
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In the fireside chat, “When the Math Doesn’t Math: Reframing CMMC to Deliver at the Speed of Relevance,” Kirsten Davies, Chief Information Officer for the Department of War, and James Mismash, Deputy Assistant Secretary of War for Industrial Base Growth, discussed the Department’s efforts to modernize its digital infrastructure, reduce compliance friction, and create a more secure and agile ecosystem that enables industry to deliver capabilities to the warfighter faster. Photo taken Aug. 26, 2026. (Courtesy Photo) AI -
YFQ-42 aircraft sit on the flightline at a California test location as part of the Air Force’s Collaborative Combat Aircraft flight test campaign. (Courtesy Air Force photo) Weapons Air Force plans to field 500 CCA drones by 2032
General Atomics’ platform is now known as the FQ-42A Vengeance, while Anduril’s has been officially designated the FQ-44A Fury, SECAF Troy Meink said Monday.
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Services members assigned to the GenAI.mil task force, Department of Defense (DOD) Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO), deliver training on building AI agents to Sailors assigned to U.S. Pacific Fleet on Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, July 23, 2026. (U.S Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Christopher Sypert) AI DOD poised to move all classified AI workloads off Anthropic by October
U.S. officials shared new details about the fast-tracked migration and early enterprise deployments of military-tuned frontier AI models.
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Defense Information Systems Agency Director, U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Paul T. Stanton. (Photo by David Abizaid) AI Decades of delayed maintenance has left Pentagon networks in ‘potential peril’ for the AI age, cyber defense commander says: ‘no more.’
Lt. Gen. Paul Stanton told an audience at the annual Billington CyberSecurity Summit that the ways in which an adversary could employ cyber agents is “mind-boggling in terms of the complexity.”
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Department of War Chief Information Officer Kirsten Davies appears at a Senate Committee on Armed Services subcommittee hearing on cybersecurity on Capitol Hill on March 24, 2026 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images) Cyber Pentagon pores over heaps of industry feedback on CMMC reform
Input from contractors is expected to inform the department’s reforms to the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program.
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The Tactical Intelligence Targeting Access Node (TITAN) is what the Army considers its next-generation, Artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled, expeditionary, maneuverable intelligence ground station. (Army photo). AI Army’s TITAN platform moving into production phase with $192M delivery award for Palantir, Anduril
Under the latest delivery announcement, the Army expects to receive eight TITAN platforms over the next 18 months.
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An AI app folder containing Grok, Gemini, and ChatGPT, among others, is displayed on a smartphone screen in Creteil, France, on July 9, 2026. (Photo by Samuel Boivin/NurPhoto via Getty Images) AI Grok and ChatGPT join Gemini in Pentagon’s enterprise genAI portal
Sources shared new details about this long-anticipated integration, which DOD officials announced on Monday.
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Spc.Isaiah Newton from the Indiana National Guard 137th CSC, engages in Crisis Response Handler course materials during Cyber Shield 2026 at the Professional Education Center in Little Rock, Ark. (Texas Army National Guard, photo by: SPC Paul Zepeda) AI Army wants fast AI cybersecurity agents that won’t run up token costs or create new vulnerabilities
“We need help in implementing agents securely, so that it doesn’t inadvertently increase our attack surface,” an Army official said. “If we have a bunch of agents roaming around, and they’re vulnerable, that just made it worse because if the adversaries attack our agents, now we’re exposed.”
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(Getty Images) Op-Ed Pausing CMMC cannot mean pausing accountability
The answer is to modernize accountability through an enterprise model that combines a formalized independent assessment, continuous external monitoring, and shared remediation support where small suppliers cannot reasonably carry the burden alone.
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Lt. Gen. Christopher L. Eubank, Commanding General, U.S. Army Cyber Command, addresses students of the U.S. Army War College Distance Education Class of 2027 during the First Resident Course at the U.S. Army War College, Carlisle Barracks, PA, July 16, 2026. AI Army cyber chief reveals AI task force building agents to ‘hunt’ in the DOD network
“Each and every day, we sit down as a group, we figure out the guardrails we’re going to apply to these agents, [and] we ask ourselves: Is it risk that a human should be answering, or is it risk that an agent can answer?” Lt. Gen. Christopher Eubank said. “And right now, today, humans are all responsible for risk. We have not turned any agents loose to assume risk on their own behalf.”