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The Department of the Air Force's latest DASH experiment integrated Space Force assets and artificial intelligence into Joint Command and Control workflows, proving human-machine teaming can dramatically compress decision cycles across the joint kill chain.

The U.S. Army executed Focused Excursion 26-3 to evaluate resilient, interconnected battlefield sensing networks designed to maintain situational awareness and targeting data streams within highly contested operational environments.

Lt. Gen. Jason D. Voorheis has assumed command of the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, overseeing a $400 billion acquisition and sustainment portfolio. His background leading C3BM will drive battle-network integration across legacy and next-generation air platforms.

The U.S. Army's Combined Arms Command is piloting VICTOR, a mobile-first artificial intelligence platform that integrates Army doctrine and field lessons learned into existing operational systems to accelerate tactical decision-making ahead of a planned force-wide rollout this fall.

The U.S. Space Force has activated the 77th Surveillance Squadron under Space Delta 7 to manage space-based moving target indication. Scaling through 2028, the unit underscores a major shift toward persistent, space-based warfighting intelligence.

A cluster of Q4 awards to non-traditional primes signals a durable rebalancing away from legacy sustainment contracts. Here is who won, who lost, and what capture teams should reprice before January.

Compliance is no longer a checkbox. It is now the gating criterion for every AI program of record above $50M.

The renegotiation is quiet. The implications for the tail contracts are not.