🔎 Defense Tech Signal — Saturday

• The White House ordered federal agencies to halt use of Anthropic’s AI systems, signaling a major shift in approved AI vendors for DoD and civilian agencies amid disputes over military use and safety guardrails.
• The Pentagon’s counter-drone task force launched a Commercial Solutions Opening to accelerate onboarding of nontraditional vendors and rapidly field counter-UAS capabilities across the joint force.
• The U.S. Army activated its new Capability Program Executive Office for Enterprise Software and Services (CPE ES2), consolidating and elevating software acquisition as a core modernization pathway.

Sources:

1) Defense News — https://www.defensenews.com/news/pentagon-congress/2026/02/27/trump-orders-federal-agencies-to-stop-using-anthropic-technology-in-dispute-over-ai-safety/
2) DefenseScoop — https://defensescoop.com/2026/02/27/jiatf-401-commercial-solutions-opening-cso-counter-uas/
3) DVIDS — https://www.dvidshub.net/news/559090/us-army-activates-cpe-enterprise-software-and-services

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