🔎 Defense Tech Signal — Saturday

• The Pentagon is seeking nearly $30 billion in FY27 to modernize its AI supercomputing infrastructure, signaling a major scale-up of compute capacity to operationalize the White House AI Action Plan across DoD missions.
• The Space Force awarded $437 million to Viasat and SES for four Protected Tactical Satcom-Global satellites, accelerating deployment of jam-resistant GEO communications for contested environments.
• The Navy advanced seven Medium Unmanned Surface Vehicle (MUSV) designs to the prototype phase, moving its unmanned maritime marketplace model closer to fielding distributed, autonomous surface platforms.

Sources:

1) DefenseScoop — https://defensescoop.com/2026/05/22/dod-wants-nearly-30-billion-to-modernize-its-ai-supercomputing-arsenal-in-fiscal-2027/
2) SpaceNews — https://spacenews.com/space-force-awards-viasat-ses-437-million-for-military-satellite-network/
3) Breaking Defense — https://breakingdefense.com/2026/05/navy-green-lights-seven-musv-marketplace-submissions-to-advance-to-prototype-phase/

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