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• ChatGPT to debut on Pentagon's GenAI.mil in ‘early July’, OpenAI says

  16-06-2026 22:02 via defenseone.com
  
  OpenAI will bring ChatGPT to GenAI.mil, the Pentagon’s generative-AI platform, in "early July," a company official said Tuesday.The AI firm is working with the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office, Mohammed Husain—the company's strategic delivery lead for cyber—said at the Defense One Tech Summit in Arlington, Virginia.“I think we're going live extremely soon, and excited to make a broader announcement about that in early July,” Husain said.Tha
  
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• Navy preps science-and-tech strategy built for speed and focus

  16-06-2026 21:44 via defenseone.com
  
  A new Navy science-and-tech strategy will push technology to the fleet faster and concentrate  limited research funds on problems industry won't solve on its own, the service’s research chief said Tuesday. The Office of Naval Research strategy, called "Feed S&T at Speed to the Fleet and Force," is in final production, Chief of Naval Research Rachel Riley said Tuesday at the Defense One Tech Summit in Arlington, Virginia."Speed is, of course, the word of the year in our busine
  
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• AI is taking background checks from 'months to hours,' clearance agency says

  16-06-2026 19:56 via defenseone.com
  
  The nation’s largest counterintelligence unit aims to use artificial intelligence tools to speed security clearance reviews for people and companies seeking to do sensitive work on behalf of the government.The Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency can use AI to reduce parts of the vetting process from “months to hours,” said Mark Nehmer, an agency analytics and innovation chief who spoke Tuesday on a panel at the Defense One Tech Summit in Virginia.DCSA is the Defense
  
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• NATO has 'changed a lot' in four years, transformation leader says

  16-06-2026 19:45 via defenseone.com
  
  NATO has “really changed a lot in the last three to four years,” since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine forced the alliance to rethink how it learns, experiments, and operates, a top NATO transformation official said.Now the alliance is moving away from long, platform-centered modernization cycles and toward faster experimentation, interoperability, and “system-of-systems” approaches, said Maj. Gen. Dominique Luzeaux, NATO’s digital transformation champion and spe
  
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• Shaped charges from coffee grounds? Pentagon science chief describes future of war

  16-06-2026 17:21 via defenseone.com
  
  When the Pentagon’s science and technology chief looks at Ukraine, he sees a war fought with weapons invented, produced, and fielded since the conflict erupted.“The fact that you can bring relevant capability to the fight, as the Ukrainians and allies have done in the conflict with Russia, that essentially didn't exist at the beginning of the fight,” Joseph Jewell, assistant defense secretary for science and technology, said Tuesday at the Defense One Tech Summit in Arlington,
  
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• Industry and academia call on administration to free Anthropic’s AI model

  16-06-2026 14:00 via defenseone.com
  
  Signatories across industry, academia and expert groups issued a public letter Monday asking the Trump administration to roll back new restrictions imposed on Anthropic’s Fable 5 model. Featured on a new “Free Fable” website, the letter — signed by representatives from companies like Adobe, NVIDIA and Zoom, along with academics from Johns Hopkins and the University of Maryland, Baltimore College — asks Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and National Cyber Direct
  
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• Pentagon’s use of JAGs in civilian roles would be probed under NDAA provision

  16-06-2026 01:03 via defenseone.com
  
  The Trump administration’s use of military lawyers for civilian roles would be probed by Congress’ watchdog agency under language added to the 2027 defense policy bill.The provision was added to the Senate Armed Service Committee’s version of the 2027 National Defense Authorization Act by Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass. It orders the Government Accountability Office to review the Pentagon’s use of judge advocate generals to support the Justice Department’s operations
  
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