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Pentagon AI oversight office struggles to keep pace with department’s ambitions, GAO finds

The Pentagon office tapped in 2022 to oversee the military’s responsible use of AI had filled just three of 10 authorized positions as of February 2026.

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Defense News· Oct 21, 3:55 PMPentagon AI oversight office struggles to keep pace with department’s ambitions, GAO findsAlso ran in Military Times

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7 striking revelations buried in secret text of Trump's 'biggest oil deal' in historyPresident Donald Trump’s Pentagon will buy into a Venezuelan billionaire’s oil company for a penny a share, the investors behind it may never be named, and the whole arrangement was designed to keep the next president from undoing it, according to the secret text of the administration’s “biggest oil deal in world history” obtained by ProPublica .…

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Map Shows How Russian Military Satellite Got Within Meters of US SpacecraftRussian military satellite Kosmos-2612 came close to Finnish-U.S. satellite ICEYE-X36 last weekend.

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Google staff resign in backlash over its AI contracts with militaryThe BBC speaks to several current and former Google DeepMind employees about their concerns with AI use on the battlefield.

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For Army advanced manufacturing, 3D printing was just a start"I look at advanced manufacturing as an ecosystem to solve problems in different ways than the traditional way of managing the lifecycle," Jon Strzelec said.

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This AI tool could transform Army maintenance — and maybe more“We're trying to take some of that cognitive and administrative burden off the soldiers so they have more time to do the warfighting,” Nicholaus Saacks said.

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Google DeepMind Engineer Resigns in Protest of Pentagon ContractSofia Liguori stepped down from DeepMind due to current military contracts — not speculative fears of an AI apocalypse. The post Google DeepMind Engineer Resigns in Protest of Pentagon Contract appeared first on The Intercept .

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Meghan Markle Fashion Dispute Complicates ‘Smear Campaign’ DefenseA fashion designer friend of Meghan Markle's says she was "furious" after a dispute with echoes of past bullying allegations.

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Boeing weighs whether to close Pa. plant as helicopter factories face military funding cuts - Wed, 21 Oct 2026 PSTThe record $1.5 trillion U.S. military budget for next year has mostly left out the Philadelphia’s area’s helicopter industry.

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Israeli military conducts massive "power projection" operation near Iran's borderDozens of Israeli Air Force fighter jets conducted a sortie on Monday, flying as far as the Iranian border, according to Israeli and U.S. officials. Why it matters: The operation, more than 800 miles away from Israel, took place a week before the Israeli elections and on the same day Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth met with Prime Minister Benjamin…

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N.Y. congressional candidate Brad Lander says he was detained by IDF soldiers in West BankCongressional candidate Brad Lander said that he was detained in the occupied West Bank by the Israel Defense Forces while participating in an olive harvest. Lander told NBC News in an interview that he was later released with a warning, although the rest of the group he was with remains in detention. NBC News' Matt Bradley discusses how it comes as…

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