🔎 Defense Tech Signal — Friday

• The U.S. Navy launched the NEREUS effort to build an extended undersea network linking manned and unmanned systems, signaling a push toward data-connected subsea operations for Distributed Maritime Operations.
• A new GAO recommendation calls for Pentagon leaders to exert greater control over service-level technology budgets, highlighting growing pressure to centralize digital modernization and AI investment decisions.
• Tomorrow.io raised $175 million to deploy its DeepSky weather satellite constellation, underscoring rising defense and intelligence demand for space-based data pipelines feeding AI-driven forecasting and sensing.

Sources:

1) DefenseScoop — https://defensescoop.com/2026/02/05/navy-dmo-subsurface-warfare-undersea-systems-network-nereus/
2) Defense One — https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2026/02/pentagon-leaders-should-have-more-control-over-services-tech-budgets-gao-suggests/411242/
3) SpaceNews — https://spacenews.com/tomorrow-io-banks-175-million-for-deepsky-weather-constellation/

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