🔎 Defense Tech Signal — Saturday

• The Pentagon rolled out an “America First Arms Transfer Strategy” that creates a priority weapons list to accelerate foreign sales aligned with U.S. industrial base capacity and alliance burden-sharing. • Shield AI and ST Engineering formed a partnership to apply AI to coordinated drone swarms, signaling continued private-sector momentum toward autonomous, team-based unmanned operations. • The U.S. Air Force banned smart glasses with AI, photo, or video capabilities while in uniform, reflecting growing operational security constraints on emerging wearable technologies.

Sources:

1) Breaking Defense — https://breakingdefense.com/2026/02/new-america-first-arms-transfer-strategy-to-create-a-list-of-priority-weapons-to-sell/ 2) Defense News — https://www.defensenews.com/unmanned/2026/02/06/shield-ai-st-engineering-join-forces-on-fine-tuning-drone-swarms/ 3) C4ISRNET — https://www.c4isrnet.com/news/your-military/2026/02/06/wearing-smart-glasses-in-uniform-jeopardizes-opsec-air-force-says/

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