🔎 Defense Tech Signal — Friday

• The Air Force has begun flight testing a mission autonomy package for Collaborative Combat Aircraft, integrating third-party software into CCA prototypes to accelerate semi-autonomous teaming with crewed fighters.
• The Navy is moving to modernize hundreds of legacy IT systems through its “Cattle Drive” initiative, consolidating and retiring outdated platforms to reduce cyber risk and redirect funding toward higher-priority digital capabilities.
• The Space Force’s Project Hecate is exploring how to keep GPS survivable beyond 2040, including analysis of leveraging proliferated LEO satellite signals as alternative PNT sources in contested environments.

Sources:

1) DefenseScoop — https://defensescoop.com/2026/02/12/air-force-testing-mission-autonomy-package-cca-drone-prototypes/
2) DefenseScoop — https://defensescoop.com/2026/02/12/navy-it-systems-modernization-operation-cattle-drive/
3) Breaking Defense — https://breakingdefense.com/2026/02/project-hecate-the-space-forces-quiet-effort-to-keep-gps-survivable-after-2040/

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