Navy CNO is ‘all ahead flank’ on AI
Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Daryl Caudle shared new details at WEST about the service’s near-term priorities associated with AI adoption.
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Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Daryl Caudle met with World War II veterans, 100-year old Paul Robins and 99-year old Eddie Desmond, aboard the Battleship USS New Jersey Museum and Memorial in Philadelphia, Pa., Oct 12. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class (SW/AW) Joe J. Cardona Gonzalez). AI -
Staff Sgt. Neil Wegley, 155th Explosive Ordnance Disposal team lead, conducts measurements on a simulated unexploded ordnance during an exercise, Feb. 7, 2026, at the Nebraska National Guard air base in Lincoln, Nebraska. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Senior Airman Jeremiah Johnson) AI Military warns EOD techs against uploading ‘highly sensitive’ bomb disposal data into generative AI systems
AEODPS is a critical database that could have unique consequences to safety and national security if material from it fell into the wrong hands.
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A U.S. Marine with III Marine Expeditionary Force familiarizes himself with maneuvering drones during the Marine Corps Attack Drone Competition on Camp Schwab, Okinawa, Japan, Dec. 7, 2025. During a two-week period, the Marine Corps Attack Drone Team trained and certified 3rd Marine Division Marines as attack drone operators, attack drone instructor, and payload specialist instructors, increasing the Division’s lethality and capacity of trained and certified attack drone operators and instructors. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Joaquin Dela Torre) AI Marine Corps seeks troops with small drone and AI expertise for warfighting lab fellowship
The solicitation for nominations was released Friday via a MARADMIN message.
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A Neros Archer first-person view drone takes off from the ground during a service level training exercise at Marine Corps Air-Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, California, Jan. 27, 2026. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Keegan Jones) Tech Pentagon names 25 vendors to compete for $150M in delivery orders during first phase of its Drone Dominance Program, ‘the Gauntlet’
The much-anticipated announcement marks the first of a four-phase approach to fielding one-way attack drones and a crucial nexus for the military’s sprint to adopt and widely produce small, cheap UAS.
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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 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 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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Chad Sherod, 319th Security Forces Squadron lead sUAS instructor, extends his hand to catch a descending drone April 7, 2023, on Grand Forks Air Force Base, North Dakota. The 319th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron plans to implement the use of drones within their disaster recovery team in the event of an aircraft crash or natural disaster. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman Colin Perkins) Emerging Tech Air Force creates task force to improve counter-drone tactics at bases
“This is an opportunity for us to build out exercises to further show that we can maintain our resiliency when it comes to defending the base and maintain our tactical air superiority above the airfield here,” said Col. Alfred Rosales.
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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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An aerial view of the Pentagon, Washington, D.C., May 15, 2023. (DoD photo by U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. John Wright) AI Advana updates left out of annual Pentagon financial report as major transition emerges
The Defense Department referred to the omission as part of a broader effort “to be more concise.”
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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.”