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WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) announced that it has entered into agreements with seven frontier artificial intelligence (AI) firms, including SpaceX, OpenAI, Google, NVIDIA, Reflection, Microsoft, and Amazon Web Services, to deploy their technologies on the DoD's classified networks.

The DoD notes that these are intended for "lawful operational use."

These capabilities are integrated into the DoD's Impact Level 6 and Impact Level 7 network environments in support of human personnel. The DoD notes that these agreements serve the ends of the Department's AI Acceleration Strategy.

Source: U.S. Department of Defense
Associated URL: https://www.war.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/4475177/classified-networks-ai-agreements/

WASHINGTON -- As the U.S. Navy seeks to clear Iranian mines from the Strait of Hormuz, Domino Data Lab has reportedly been contracted by the Navy to accelerate the process of detecting mines.

The company in part is to use artificial intelligence (AI) to hasten the process of mine detection, with an aim of condensing the timeline for the detection of new types of mines to days, rather than months.

The contract awarded to the firm by the Navy is worth up to $99.7 million and is part of the Navy's Accelerated Machine Learning for Maritime Operations (AMMO) program (Project AMMO).

Source: Reuters
Associated URL: https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/us-navy-turns-ai-firm-domino-options-counter-iranian-mines-2026-05-01/

RESTON, Va. - Using artificial intelligence (AI), advanced networking and modular open architecture, Leidos will design, build and integrate secure systems for the Pentagon that help warfighters make better, faster decisions across the electromagnetic spectrum and land, sea, air, space and cyber domains.

The work will be done under a five-year, $869 million MACRO (Mission Awareness Capabilities Ramp-up and Optimization) II competitive contract recently awarded by the U.S. Army.

"This program is designed to help the joint force turn growing volumes of data into clear, operationally relevant insight, with the goal of enabling warfighters to understand the battlefield and act faster than the enemy," said Chad Haferbier, Leidos senior vice president of decision advantage. "We are excited to partner with the Army and joint partners to accelerate how we develop and integrate mission systems for multi-domain operations."

Source: Leidos
Associated URL: https://www.leidos.com/