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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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Trump Falls Asleep on Camera Again (He Also Fell Asleep Yesterday)Our 80-year-old president is once again struggling to stay awake on camera. President Trump’s eyes grew heavy during his cybercrime prevention roundtable on Thursday with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, White House adviser Stephen Miller, Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin, Attorney General Todd Blanche, and FBI Director Kash Patel. The…

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New data show cleared employees are bigger targets than everThe FBI alerted contractors that North Korean IT workers are trying to obtain positions with cleared defense companies and others with government contracts.

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US pulls personnel from Saudi Arabia as kingdom comes under Houthi fireTrump weighs direct military strikes against the Houthis as deadly attacks on Saudi Arabia escalate and Riyadh urgently seeks U.S. interceptors.

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GOP's midterm headaches just got worse as JD Vance defends ‘atrocious’ ad: conservativeCNN conservative commentator S.E. Cupp warned Wednesday that Vice President JD Vance only made Republicans’ election headaches worse by defending a controversial campaign ad targeting a Democratic gubernatorial candidate. “Seems an odd choice to not only double down and defend such an atrocious and impolitic ad, but to reprimand any Republicans who have…

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Turning defense data chaos into mission advantage: The necessity of federated AIThe next mission-critical dataset a warfighter needs will rarely be sitting in the platform built to serve them.

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