🔎 Defense Tech Signal — Saturday

• The U.S. Army awarded Anduril a $20B contract to build an AI-driven battlefield network around its Lattice platform, signaling a major shift toward software-defined command-and-control as core warfighting infrastructure.
• Ukraine has begun sharing real combat data with allies and defense firms to train autonomous drone AI models, creating a live battlefield data pipeline that could accelerate allied autonomy development.
• The Army launched a commercial drone marketplace under a new acquisition pathway to rapidly field UAS capabilities, formalizing a faster bridge between commercial innovation and operational units.

Sources:

1) Defence Blog — https://defence-blog.com/u-s-army-awards-anduril-20b-contract-for-ai-battlefield-network/
2) Defense News — https://www.defensenews.com/flashpoints/ukraine/2026/03/13/ukraine-opens-battlefield-ai-data-to-allies-in-world-first-move/
3) DefenseScoop — https://defensescoop.com/2026/03/13/army-uas-marketplace-drone-technology-driscoll-hegseth/

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