🔎 Defense Tech Signal — Saturday

• The Defense Innovation Unit is fast-tracking a solicitation for counter-drone sensors to protect U.S. infrastructure, with a spring 2026 demo planned, signaling urgent demand for scalable C-UAS detection capabilities.
• The Pentagon may downselect to just three vendors for the largest phase of its Drone Dominance Program, anticipating procurement of up to 150,000 drones in a major consolidation of small UAS acquisition.
• The U.S. Marine Corps awarded Kodiak AI a contract to integrate autonomous driving software into the ROGUE-Fires platform, advancing operational deployment of AI-enabled, unmanned ground fires systems.

Sources:

1) Defense News — https://www.defensenews.com/news/pentagon-congress/2026/02/13/pentagon-wants-counter-drone-sensors-to-protect-us-infrastructure-and-fast/
2) DefenseScoop — https://defensescoop.com/2026/02/13/military-drone-dominance-program-competition/
3) Defence Blog — https://defence-blog.com/u-s-marines-integrate-kodiak-ai-into-rogue-fires/

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