Cyber

Pentagon AI agreements move commercial models into classified defence networks. The eight vendor framework pushes artificial intelligence deeper into operational infrastructure, creating production demands around secure hosting, accreditation, audit trails, model evaluation, cloud architecture, classified deployment, and continuous assurance.

QinetiQ’s eLoran contract targets deployable navigation resilience for UK forces. Team Elaris will test how alternative position, navigation, and timing systems can be packaged for contested environments, with production demands spanning rugged electronics, antennas, secure software, calibration, field testing, and platform integration.

Peraton has achieved CMMC Final Level 2 certification, strengthening its ability to handle controlled unclassified information across US defence and national security programmes.

Germany is holding off Palantir defence software contracts for now. The decision highlights procurement tension between battlefield AI tools, national military databases, contractor access, and sovereign control of sensitive defence data.

CISA and the NCSC have warned about Firestarter malware. The backdoor targets Cisco ASA, Firepower, and Secure Firewall infrastructure, creating persistence concerns for government, defence, and critical national infrastructure networks.

Japan is weighing deeper electronic warfare cooperation with Northrop Grumman. The discussions cover electromagnetic-spectrum detection, disruption, simulation, and training systems as Tokyo strengthens its ability to counter software-defined, wideband, distributed, and multispectral threats.

Testing around large language models used in U.S. defence workflows has sharpened focus on source integrity, foreign influence, and assurance controls for generative AI.

The UK has opened a new call to AI companies to help strengthen national cyber defence, while adding funding and supply-chain expectations to its resilience agenda.