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Elbridge Colby approved a Pentagon program that pays cyber troops up to $2,500 for novel achievements, offensive operations included, effective Oct. 5. The instruction text DefenseScoop quotes ties each award to a single result and does not mention retention.
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Former NSA director Paul Nakasone called a reported five-part reorganization of the agency 'probably necessary' but said execution will decide it. He tied the case to attacker speed, citing CrowdStrike figures that put average lateral movement at 29 minutes.
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OpenAI and xAI now sit inside the Pentagon's own portal, where 1.7 million of 3 million staff already hold accounts. Anthropic won a contract in the same round and got no placement, which is where the gate actually sits.
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Katie Sutton told DefenseTalks that her one priority is building more cyber options for the president and the defense secretary. She dated the department's current posture to the 2018 authorities and credited the past year with the change.
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The Army and Air Force Exchange Service says it is investigating suspicious emails and app push notifications sent to its customers, and it has not said yet whether its own systems or a partner's were involved.
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The IRON solicitation asks industry for agents that outrun human analysts without an inference bill that grows with the attack volume. The Army also wants them not to become targets themselves.
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Acting Secretary Hung Cao's warning to the force puts social media exposure, drones over warships and probing of base gates inside one campaign. The remedy on offer is individual account hygiene.
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The Army's Project Griffin solicitation names eight acceptance conditions for autonomous defensive agents. Every one of them is a question a private buyer can put to a vendor now.
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