🔎 Defense Tech Signal — Thursday

• The Pentagon outlined how it plans to allocate $50B toward “drone dominance,” signaling a sustained shift in force design, procurement, and industrial policy around unmanned systems at scale.
• The House Armed Services Committee’s draft NDAA would fold the Space Development Agency and Space RCO into a portfolio-based structure, a major acquisition governance shift for military space programs.
• DoD awarded Dell a $9.7B contract to consolidate Microsoft 365 licenses under a single vehicle, marking one of the largest enterprise software rationalization efforts across the department.

Sources:

1) Defense One — https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2026/05/how-pentagon-plans-spend-50-billion-drone-warfare/413805/
2) SpaceNews — https://spacenews.com/house-armed-services-draft-bill-eliminates-sda-space-rco-as-separate-entities/
3) Breaking Defense — https://breakingdefense.com/2026/05/pentagon-awards-dell-9-7-billion-contract-to-consolidate-software-licenses/

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