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ORIGIN and Anduril Sign MoU on Counter-UAS Air Defense for NATO’s Eastern Flank

Friday, September 25th, 2026

Companies will explore integration of BLAZE, ORIGIN’s autonomous counter-drone interceptor, with Lattice, Anduril’s sensor-agnostic command and control platform;
Agreement includes joint testing and demonstrations in Latvia to assess how the combined technologies could contribute to a layered air defense against drone threats;
MoU signed as an outcome of a Latvian business trade mission, taking place in the United States during the official visit of the President of Latvia.

LOS ANGELES (25 September 2026) — Anduril, a US defense technology company building autonomous systems and command and control software, and ORIGIN, a defense technology company building autonomous unmanned aerial systems, have agreed to explore how their technologies could work together to strengthen the deterrence posture of NATO’s eastern flank. Under the memorandum of understanding, they will explore the integration of Anduril’s Lattice software platform with BLAZE, ORIGIN’s autonomous counter-drone interceptor, to offer a layered counter-UAS capability in support of Latvia’s air defense. The MoU was signed during a Latvian business trade mission organised by the Investment and Development Agency of Latvia (LIAA) as part of the official visit by the President of Latvia, Edgars Rink?vi?s, to the United States.

Lattice is Anduril’s software platform for fusing data from disparate sensors and unmanned systems into a single layer, giving operators real-time visibility across a battlefield and the ability to task connected assets such as sensors and vehicles. Under the MoU, ORIGIN and Anduril will explore how BLAZE connects into that layer alongside deployed radars and other sensors, working toward a concept of operations for counter-UAS missions.

The two companies have agreed to joint testing, demonstration and validation activity in Latvia, alongside concept of operations development, data sharing and mission-effectiveness assessment for counter-UAS profiles. For end users, the collaboration points toward interceptors that do not operate in isolation from wider defense infrastructure. As threats become more networked, systems that can plug into a shared command and control layer are becoming a requirement rather than an advantage for operators assembling holistic air defense capabilities.

Martins Marenis, Commercial Director of ORIGIN, said: “We are here to work alongside industry leaders and innovators to build C-UAS systems that genuinely help empower NATO allies. Integrating BLAZE with Anduril’s Lattice platform means our interceptors operate as part of a connected system, giving allied forces better visibility and faster response against evolving drone threats. That is what modern air defense requires, and it is what smaller nations along NATO’s eastern flank need to defend their own airspace effectively.”

The MoU between ORIGIN and Anduril was signed as an outcome of a Latvian business trade mission to the United States, organised by the Investment and Development Agency of Latvia (LIAA) and taking place alongside the President’s official visit. The mission runs through 27 September and covers New York, Los Angeles and San Diego, bringing together representatives of companies and organisations across four sector tracks, including defense and dual-use technologies.

“The cooperation memorandum between ORIGIN and Anduril is a significant outcome of this trade mission. ORIGIN has come to the United States with defence technologies developed in Latvia and a clear proposal for cooperation, and the memorandum confirms Anduril’s interest in developing this cooperation. For Latvian companies, the objective is to develop joint projects with US partners, secure orders and attract investment, and LIAA will continue to help move this work forward,” said Ieva J?gere, Director of LIAA.

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NestAI to Bring Adaptive AI into Electronic Warfare Platforms

Saturday, September 19th, 2026

Saab and NestAI partner to build defence systems that keep improving after they are fielded.

NestAI has entered a partnership with Saab to bring adaptive AI into selected parts of Saab’s electronic warfare platform. The capability is developed through NestOS, NestAI’s adaptive operating system for modern battlefield operations. For European armed forces, it marks a step toward sensor systems that do not just perform at delivery but continue to improve throughout their operational life.

Saab’s sensor technology, which already sets a high standard in the field, serves as the first step in a broader model for bringing adaptive AI into production defence systems. Developed with NestOS, the partnership adds an AI layer that optimises both performance and production efficiency, taking a proven product family to a new level of capability. The result is a system that continuously learns from operational data and adapts to changing conditions.

Speed and adaptability matter in today’s security environment. As threats evolve faster than procurement cycles, the ability to update and improve deployed systems without new hardware has become a strategic priority for armed forces across the continent. This collaboration represents a broader commitment to pioneering Nordic AI excellence in defence, built to deliver adaptive AI capability at speed without compromising the rigour that defence applications demand.

Under the partnership, Saab’s sensors will continue to improve over time, drawing on operational data processed through NestOS.

“European defence systems are fielded for decades. The threats they face change in months. Most systems have no way to close that gap after deployment. This partnership is about changing that, building the infrastructure for defence capability that evolves with the threat, not against it”, says Peter Sarlin, Founder and Executive Chairman, NestAI

“Saab and NestAI are bringing together leading defence and AI expertise to strengthen Nordic and European capability. By combining operational knowledge with advanced artificial intelligence, we are exploring how to lay the foundations for the next generation of secure, sovereign and mission-critical capabilities”, says Mikael Adelsberg, Chief Digital Officer at Saab.

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Gallatin AI Supports 11th Airborne Division During Yama Sakura 91

Wednesday, September 16th, 2026

CAMP HIGASHI-CHITOSE, Japan, Sept. 15, 2026 — Gallatin AI deployed its AI/ML sustainment decision-support application, Navigator, in support of the U.S. Army’s 11th Airborne Division during Exercise Yama Sakura 91.

Throughout the two-week exercise, Navigator’s AI-enabled predictive sustainment capabilities allowed division staff to forecast critical supplies ahead-of-need, provide near-real-time equipment and personnel readiness visibility, and calculate available combat power. These capabilities helped sustainment professionals assess the logistical feasibility of operational plans and provide commanders with a clearer understanding of sustainment risk across competing courses of action.

Yama Sakura is the largest joint, trilateral command post exercise co-sponsored by U.S. Army Pacific and the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF), focused on readiness and interoperability between U.S., Japanese, and Australian forces. Navigator supported key Yama Sakura 91 objectives, including increasing joint force lethality, strengthening alliances and partnerships, and furthering experimentation and innovation in the context of multi-domain operations.

Navigator’s integration into Yama Sakura 91 continues the partnership between Gallatin and the 11th Airborne, as Navigator was previously used in February by the unit’s 17th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion during Joint Pacific Multinational Readiness Center 26-02. It also represents the first time the 11th Airborne has leveraged Navigator at the division-level to inform corps-echelon decision making.

Purpose-built around open-architecture principles, Navigator ensures interoperability across U.S. Department of War, Allied, and Partner systems (namely Maven Smart System), all without relying on proprietary hardware.

“Allied and Partner interoperability is central to both Navigator’s capability set and Gallatin’s viewpoint on defense technology,” said Woody Glier, CEO of Gallatin. “The ability to support combined operations is table stakes, whether you’re talking about deterring adversaries, or defeating them during large-scale combat operations. The technology supporting those forces has to work across organizations, echelons, and national boundaries.”

Navigator is already deployed with multiple military units, supporting every level of war. Capabilities will continue to be validated through iterative delivery across multiple live exercises.

The appearance of U.S. Department of War (DoW) visual information does not imply or constitute DoW endorsement.

For more information, visit www.gallatin.ai.

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MixMode Cleared to Broadly Deploy Its AI Cyber Platform in US Defense and Intelligence Community Environments

Sunday, August 23rd, 2026

Company has been granted a Department of War Certificate to Field and an Authority to Operate from the U.S. Intelligence CommunitySANTA BARBARA, Calif., Aug. 19, 2026 — MixMode, the AI cyber defense company, today announced two U.S. Government security milestones that clear its platform for wider use in some of the nation’s most secure operational environments: a Department of War Certificate to Field (CtF) and an Authority to Operate (ATO) granted by the U.S. Intelligence Community.

MixMode defends large, mission-critical government networks against AI-driven attacks, insider threats and other emerging cyber threats. The platform autonomously observes an organization’s network traffic, cloud, and user activity in real time. Instead of relying on rules or signatures of past attacks, its self-learning AI builds a continuously updated model of what expected behavior looks like in each environment, then flags activity that doesn’t fit. That is what allows MixMode to surface threats no one has seen before: novel and Frontier AI-generated attacks moving across the network, nation-state tradecraft, and insiders misusing legitimate access. The Third Wave AI at the core of the platform is built on more than two decades of research in applied mathematics and dynamical systems, including projects sponsored by DARPA and the U.S. Department of War.

The two milestones mark significant progress in MixMode’s expansion across the U.S. defense and intelligence market:

Certificate to Field (CtF) MixMode achieved a Department of War Certificate to Field, confirming the platform has been evaluated against the Department’s software security and risk standards and is approved for use on the granting component’s information systems, supporting accelerated evaluations for future Department of War deployments.

Authority to Operate (ATO) A U.S. Intelligence Community agency granted MixMode an Authority to Operate, authorizing the platform to run in high-security operational environments, one of the most rigorous security reviews a software product can complete.

The milestones come as the White House emphasizes the urgent need to modernize cybersecurity for an AI-driven era. Speaking at CyberTalks, Acting Federal CISO Michael Duffy called for a more proactive and adaptive approach: “As we enter this new era defined by AI, interconnections, [and] expanded dependencies… we can’t wait for the next crisis to inspire our action.”

The urgency is real. Frontier AI level models, such as those from Anthropic and ChatGPT, have recently demonstrated the ability to autonomously find software flaws to immediately build and deploy cyber exploits. This capability, along with agentic frameworks, will be weaponized to enable bad actors to radically increase both the velocity and efficacy of new cyber attacks against critical systems. MixMode is uniquely built to self-learn each environment and accurately predict expected behavior in order to see deviating activity related to active threats. With this highly accurate real-time prediction capability, the platform is able to detect new novel cyber attacks from adversarial actors utilizing frontier AI systems or behavior related to insider threats.

“As the cybersecurity industry evolves with the rapidly increasing use of AI by bad actors, it is now a necessity for real-time AI-driven technology to defend against these attacks,” said John Keister, CEO of MixMode. “MixMode has continued to focus on its proprietary, highly-efficient platform that includes the best detection system on the planet for attacks, including those that are AI-driven.”

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US Marine Corps Awards Accrete Sole-Source Contract for Argus for Cognitive Advantage

Saturday, August 22nd, 2026

NEW YORK, Aug. 21, 2026 — Accrete, the cognitive infrastructure company building Knowledge Engines for autonomous work, today announced that it has been awarded a sole-source contract by the U.S. Marine Corps to deliver Argus for Cognitive Advantage.

The award was made on a sole-source basis. Under the award, Accrete will license its Expert AI Agents to the U.S. Marine Corps to help achieve cognitive advantage, enabling more informed, confident decisions.

Adversaries increasingly compete below the threshold of armed conflict, using coordinated narratives, synthetic media, and inauthentic amplification to shape perceptions faster than human analysts can track. Rather than treating open-source data as a search problem, Argus for Cognitive Advantage tracks, analyzes, and visualizes narrative development across the complete information environment — OSINT, open web, social media, broadcast media, messaging platforms, and foreign-language outlets. Accrete’s Knowledge Engine platform, which powers the Expert AI Agent Argus for Cognitive Advantage, converts the institutional knowledge of experienced practitioners into expert AI agents that surface the most relevant, use-case-specific signals across every accessible network. This significantly reduces analytic time and produces the detailed reporting required for timely decision-making.

In a world driven by visual media, rapid analysis is paramount — and this is where Argus for Cognitive Advantage’s video vision stands out. It reduces hours of video content to analysis in minutes, transcribing and translating speech, detecting objects and scene content, and inferring location cues — turning clips that once had to be watched end to end into searchable, attributable evidence, including video posted in languages the analyst does not read.

Additional product capabilities include:

Narrative intelligence. Narrative engines, stance detection, and predictive simulation track how conversations evolve and resonate.

Audience simulation. The Audience Simulation Agent segments an audience and simulates how each segment will react to a message before it is released, compressing a weeks-long analytic task into a single workflow.

Measures of effectiveness. Automated assessments quantify mission outcomes.

Global reach. Real-time translation and transcription across 243 languages, spanning sources including Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, X, YouTube, Reddit, Telegram, Weibo, and VKontakte.

Argus Chat. Analysts query the data in plain language.

Trusted AI by design. Every inference is traceable to its source, within auditable, accreditation-ready boundaries.

“Cognitive advantage is a warfighting requirement, not a support function, and this award reflects the Marine Corps’ clear recognition of that,” said Bill Wall, CEO of Accrete AI Government. “Furthermore, this sole-source award demonstrates the trust Accrete has built across the Department of War services. Accrete is proud to expand its reach within the Department of War by supporting the U.S. Marine Corps.”

Accrete first deployed Argus with the Department of War in 2022, followed by a multi-million dollar U.S. Army contract in 2024 to advance the capability for Army information operations. Argus for Cognitive Advantage was selected for a 2025 AFWERX STRATFI award to transition its technology from prototype to operational use.

“Knowledge Engines are dynamic context recorders, and the advantage begins the moment an organization presses record. The most valuable context in any institution is the know-how trapped in the heads of its best people. Organizations that never capture it are ceding compounding advantage to adversaries and competitors that do. Argus for Cognitive Advantage is one of the most sophisticated applications of the Knowledge Engine platform, and Accrete is proud to extend it to the Marine Corps as it counters adversaries operating against the United States every day through digital channels,” said Prashant Bhuyan, Founder, CEO, and Chairman of Accrete, Inc.

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SOFWERX – UxSAI Mission Autonomy Systems Assessment Event

Friday, August 21st, 2026

SOFWERX, in collaboration with USSOCOM Program Executive Office SOF Digital Applications (PEO-SDA), will host a series of events to identify and evaluate decentralized and collaborative mission autonomy solutions for heterogeneous, multi-platform, multi-domain unmanned systems in support of the Unmanned Systems Autonomy and Interoperability (UxSAI) program.

Fielding and sustaining autonomy on unmanned systems requires mission autonomy software capable of executing diverse missions within complex, rapidly changing environments and traditional vertical-stack autonomy is constrained by proprietary, vendor-locked software architectures and is highly vulnerable to communications denial in contested electromagnetic environments. Decentralized mission autonomy addresses this gap by enabling peer-to-peer coordination, dynamic re-tasking, and localized planning without real-world communications or centralized command constraints. The UxSAI Program is seeking a mission autonomy software solution that can seamlessly integrate into the government-owned Collaborative Heterogeneous Autonomy Operations Software (CHAOS) baseline, allowing program personnel to rapidly field new capabilities independently.

The goal is to identify mission autonomy software providers capable of delivering decentralized and collaborative autonomy solutions that integrate with the CHAOS baseline for multi-platform, multi-domain unmanned systems. The selected provider should deliver an open, modular capability that UxSAI personnel can configure and sustain organically, without ongoing vendor dependency for software development, and the UxSAI program intends to complete test and evaluation (T&E) on vendor deliverables as a part of this event.

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Learn more at events.sofwerx.org/uxsaimissionautonomy.

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US Army Combined Arms Command Advances AI-Powered Knowledge Platform, VICTOR

Sunday, August 16th, 2026

FORT LEAVENWORTH, Kan. — The U.S. Army is creating VICTOR, a new artificial intelligence-powered network engagement platform designed to transform how soldiers and Army career professionals discover, share and apply operational knowledge. Managed by the leaders within the U.S. Army Combined Arms Command, the effort represents the next step in connecting the Army’s institutional knowledge with the needs of Soldiers across the force.

This new tool aims to solve a long-standing problem: critical lessons and insights are often locked away in disconnected data silos, which impedes and discourages Soldiers from finding them. Whether preparing for a training event, planning an operation or responding to an emerging threat, Soldiers and leaders often spend valuable time searching across multiple systems for information. VICTOR is focused on reducing that burden by bringing trusted Army knowledge together into one interface.

Combat leaders must make confident decisions under extreme pressure; they deserve access to the Army’s collective knowledge at the point of need. VICTOR is being designed as a mobile-first capability that connects authoritative Army knowledge and lessons learned to deliver relevant, actionable information when it matters most.

“We’re getting away from Soldiers having to comb through a haystack of links to websites and documents that may or may not even have the answers they need,” said Lt. Col. Jonathan Nielsen, the VICTOR lead at the Combined Arms Command.

“The point of this effort is to combine AI capabilities with the massive canon of knowledge we have in our doctrine library and in the experience of our Soldiers. VICTOR aims to bring all of that together on a secure, easy-to-access platform that Soldiers can use to get instant answers to their questions and only the most relevant resources brought directly to them.”

Rather than replacing existing systems, VICTOR is designed to connect them, enabling users to receive synthesized answers instead of searching across multiple repositories.

The application launched this month to an initial group of innovators consisting of Soldiers and Army civilian professionals. This cohort is testing the system and providing critical insights to shape future capabilities. Based on this feedback, the VICTOR team is targeting a launch to the force this fall accompanied by multiple user upgrades, ensuring that the platform is fully tuned to warfighter needs.

This initiative is designed to improve readiness by helping leaders and Soldiers make faster, more informed decisions. For a squad leader in the motor pool or a company commander in the field, it means getting instant answers when they are needed most. It allows units to benefit from lessons learned across the force rather than relying on trial and error.

“Most of us grew up in the Army where the Center for Army Lessons Learned and the Army Publishing Directorate were the go-to platforms for the latest established and emerging doctrine,” Nielsen said.

“That entire ecosystem was built on the institutional Army and everyday Soldiers sharing their hard-earned tactics, techniques and procedures to help each other fight and win. Over the years, we went from carrying that info in physical books, to scrolling through digital PDFs, and eventually listening to audiobooks on the move. VICTOR is the next-generation step in that evolution. It’s transforming those decades of shared knowledge into an AI-driven, personalized mission partner that puts instant, customized answers at the point of need.”

By connecting lessons learned across the force, VICTOR is designed to accelerate how the Army learns and adapts. In a multi-domain environment, that ability to turn knowledge into timely decisions will provide a decisive information advantage. Combat leaders must make split-second, critical decisions under extreme pressure. VICTOR will help shape how the Army learns, shares knowledge, and prepares for tomorrow’s fight.

By U.S. Army Combined Arms Command

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Gilat Demonstrates Breakthrough AI-Based Interference Detection and Cancellation Technology for Satellite Links

Friday, August 7th, 2026

Patent-pending AI technology delivers up to 10x improvement in interference detection and cancellation performance ensuring resilient satellite communications in highly contested spectrum environments

Petah Tikva, Israel, August 6, 2026 – Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. (NASDAQ: GILT, TASE: GILT), a worldwide leader in satellite networking technology, solutions, and services, today announced the successful demonstration of a breakthrough AI-based interference detection and cancellation technology for satellite communication links.

The patent-pending solution leverages advanced AI-based signal processing designed to run on standard AI for edge NPU and has demonstrated exceptional performance across a wide range of non-cooperative and non-static interference scenarios.

The preliminary demonstration results showed up to a 10x improvement in interference detection and cancellation performance compared to conventional interference mitigation techniques, enabling the detection and cancellation of challenging interference conditions while maintaining compatibility with modern satellite communication systems. The results further demonstrated that the signal of interest remained virtually unaffected after interference cancellation, with only negligible degradation in signal quality.

As satellite communications face increasingly complex interference and jamming threats, the technology offers a powerful new approach to maintaining reliable connectivity and service continuity in highly contested spectrum environments.

“This achievement demonstrates Gilat’s technological leadership in enabling service continuity under severe interference and jamming scenarios, helping ensure robust and resilient satellite communications in highly contested spectrum environments,” said Aharon Mullokandov, Chief R&D Officer at Gilat. “In an environment where spectrum is becoming a crucial resource for both defense and commercial applications, this technology opens new opportunities that were not possible before. Building on this success, Gilat plans to demonstrate the technology on dedicated AI accelerator hardware, paving the way for a low-power edge solution suitable for deployment in operational satellite communication terminals.”

The successful demonstration represents another milestone in Gilat’s ongoing innovation in advanced satellite communications technologies and reinforces the Company’s commitment to developing solutions that address the evolving challenges faced by satellite network operators, government agencies, and defense organizations worldwide.

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