US Department of Defense News Latest US Department of Defense news, funding rounds and robotics & AI coverage. 8 articles tracked by The Robotics Media.
The US Department of Defense (DoD), also referred to as the Pentagon or the Department of War, is the executive department of the US government responsible for the armed forces. It has emerged as one of the largest institutional buyers of frontier AI systems,...
Pentagon in Talks to Lend Fluidstack $5B for AI Data-Center Supply Chain — Sep 11, 2026 — The Pentagon's Office of Strategic Capital is in talks to lend roughly $5 billion to AI cloud startup Fluidstack to secure US data-center supply chain...Pentagon Adds ChatGPT Mil And Grok For Government To GenAI.mil Portal — Sep 1, 2026 — The DoD folded OpenAI's ChatGPT Mil and xAI's Grok for Government into its GenAI.mil portal, giving 3M personnel access to three frontier models.Hanwha Wins South Korea's First Military UGV Mass-Production Deal — Aug 16, 2026 — South Korea has awarded Hanwha Aerospace its first mass-production contract for a multipurpose military robot, selecting the Arion-SMET UGV for the Ar...Pentagon Hands Palantir Up To $244M Sole-Source In Feinberg Memo — Aug 15, 2026 — A Defense Department memo directs agencies to spend as much as $243.9M on Palantir software with no competition through March 2027 — and hunt for more...Pentagon backs Performance Drone Works with up to $820M loan for drone components — Aug 8, 2026 — The Pentagon's Office of Strategic Capital has issued a conditional loan commitment of up to $820 million to Performance Drone Works to scale domestic...Ukraine's F-Drones Ships First 2,000 F10 Strike UAVs To Pentagon — Jul 18, 2026 — Ukrainian manufacturer F-Drones is the first to win an export permit for finished combat drones, sending 2,000 China-free F10 FPV attack UAVs to the U...Pentagon Creates DRPM-UxS Drone Czar, Pulls Programs From Services — Jul 7, 2026 — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth signed a June 29 memo creating the Direct Reporting Portfolio Manager for Unmanned Systems, a new office that will over...Unsealed Emails Show Pentagon Called Anthropic Talks 'Very Close' As Blacklist Landed — Jul 5, 2026 — Court documents unsealed July 2 reveal Pentagon Undersecretary Emil Michael emailed Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei that talks were 'very close' the day af...