🔎 Defense Tech Signal — Thursday

• The Pentagon is moving to standardize AI vendors against a shared ethics baseline, signaling tighter governance requirements for defense AI procurement and deployment.
• DIU is seeking commercially built GEO imagery satellites that companies will field and operate before government transfer, accelerating a commercial-first model for space-based ISR.
• A GAO review found software delays in the Sentinel ICBM program and risks in extending Minuteman III, underscoring digital modernization challenges inside a core nuclear recapitalization effort.

Sources:

1) Defense One — https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2026/02/pentagon-says-its-getting-its-ai-providers-same-baseline/411506/
2) SpaceNews — https://spacenews.com/pentagon-seeks-commercially-built-geo-spy-satellites/
3) Defense News — https://www.defensenews.com/news/pentagon-congress/2026/02/18/sentinel-icbm-program-hit-by-software-delays-minuteman-extension-risks-gao/

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