🔎 Defense Tech Signal — Saturday

• The U.S. Army will experiment with shutting down NIPRNet at multiple sites in favor of commercial internet, signaling a potential shift toward cloud-native, zero-trust networking models at scale.
• The U.S. Navy plans to deploy unmanned surface vessels with operational fleets this year, marking a transition of drone boats from experimentation to routine force structure.
• The U.S. Army Command and General Staff College executed an AI-enabled wargame in a single-day exercise, indicating AI is moving into core professional military education rather than pilot programs.

Sources: 1) DefenseScoop — https://defensescoop.com/2026/01/16/army-secretary-dan-driscoll-kill-nipr-commercial-internet-evaluation/
2) Breaking Defense — https://breakingdefense.com/2026/01/no-longer-experimental-navy-to-deploy-drone-boats-this-year-official-says/
3) DVIDS — https://www.dvidshub.net/news/556344/more-than-buzzword-us-army-command-and-general-staff-college-leads-pme-ai-integration

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