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• AWS launches Secret Cloud for industry’s classified workloads

  30-06-2026 23:21 via defenseone.com
  
  Amazon Web Services on Tuesday announced a new cloud offering designed to run contractor-owned classified workloads, a first for the defense industrial base and select research institutions that historically have had to build and maintain costly on-premesis infrastructure to support classified programs.The AWS Secret Cloud for Industry, or ASCI, is designed to reduce the provision time for classified environments up to the Secret classification level from months to days, according to Dave Levy,
  
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• Lawmaker warns of administration’s ‘fetishization’ of Silicon Valley startups

  30-06-2026 16:15 via defenseone.com
  
  Rep. James Walkinshaw has big plans for the federal government’s sprawling tech stack, including scrutinizing the contracting practices of the current administration.In an extensive sit-down interview with Nextgov/FCW and other GovExec reporters, the Democratic congressman from Virginia said that he wants to help rebuild the federal government’s capacity after sweeping disruption carried out by the Department of Government Efficiency—from strengthening civil service protections
  
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• Pentagon recruiting new tech talent for AI implementation

  30-06-2026 16:04 via defenseone.com
  
  The Pentagon on Tuesday announced a new campaign to recruit hundreds of young programmers for AI and engineering challenges, according to an advance notice seen by Defense One.“War Force is a call to action for patriotic forward-deployed engineers who want to serve their country and the warfighter,” Defense (War) Department CTO Emil Michael said in a statement viewed by Defense One. Successful applicants, referred to in this OPM job listing for a “forward deployed engineer
  
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• Pentagon launches ‘War Force’ initiative to onboard tech talent

  30-06-2026 15:45 via defenseone.com
  
  The Office of Personnel Management and the Pentagon jointly announced the launch of a new initiative on Tuesday to bring top software engineering talent into the Department of Defense, part of a broader governmentwide push to hire more skilled technologists. The recruitment effort, called War Force, operates under OPM’s larger Tech Force program. That initiative launched in December 2025 to onboard tech and cybersecurity professionals across federal agencies, although it notably follo
  
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• Army using AI, robot boats for Pacific logistics

  30-06-2026 13:22 via defenseone.com
  
  The Army’s 8th Theater Sustainment Command is using artificial intelligence “to help us make better-informed decisions” for supply chain management in the Pacific, the unit’s commander said Friday.“For logistics, a lot of what we do is very similar to what the commercial world does, and so I have leveraged, and we are leveraging commercial partners with, you know, how do they do warehouse management regionally, and then how do they look at, how do you time delivery
  
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• Marine Corps inks first contract for autonomous ground vehicle production

  30-06-2026 03:22 via defenseone.com
  
  The Marine Corps will pay Overland AI $19.7 million to produce more than a dozen autonomous ground vehicles by early 2027.The vehicles, due to be delivered in about nine months, will be part of the Marine Air Defense Integrated Systems program, which is part of the service’s counterdrone approach, and support resupply missions. “Ground autonomy matters now more than ever. We're seeing the proliferation of uncrewed ground vehicles in conflicts like the one in Ukraine, and tech ma
  
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