🔎 Defense Tech Signal — Monday

• The US Marine Corps’ order of Anduril’s Bolt‑M loitering munition signals accelerating adoption of machine‑learning–enabled autonomous weapons moving from experimentation into production programs.
• A new SpaceNews analysis argues that protecting proliferated satellite constellations will require AI-driven, globally integrated space domain awareness architectures rather than platform-by-platform defenses.
• The US Army’s $228M award to Elbit for Iron Fist active protection systems shows continued investment in sensor-fusion and real‑time threat interception to extend the survivability of legacy ground combat platforms.

Sources: 1) RealClearDefense — https://www.realcleardefense.com/2026/01/26/inside_andurils_bolt-m_kamikaze_drone_1160859.html
2) SpaceNews — https://spacenews.com/we-need-a-planetary-neural-network-for-ai-enabled-space-infrastructure-protection/
3) Defence Blog — https://defence-blog.com/pentagon-awards-elbit-iron-fist-deal-for-bradley-fighting-vehicles/

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