🔎 Defense Tech Signal — Monday

• The Defense Logistics Agency issued an RFP for a potential seven-year, $903M ERP cloud hosting and SAP RISE support contract, signaling continued migration of core logistics systems to managed cloud environments.
• A senator is pressing the Pentagon for details on its rapid rewrite of lethal autonomous weapons policy, elevating governance, mitigation standards, and oversight of AI-enabled systems.
• Ukraine is deploying AI-trained autonomous interceptors to counter Russian drones, demonstrating how battlefield data pipelines are directly shaping real-time air defense capabilities.

Sources:

1) GovConWire — https://www.govconwire.com/articles/dla-erp-cloud-hosting-sap-rise-idiq-contract-rfp
2) DefenseScoop — https://defensescoop.com/2026/06/15/lawmaker-questions-pentagons-plan-to-revise-autonomous-weapons-policy/
3) New York Times — https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/15/world/europe/ukraine-russia-war-ai.html

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