🔎 Defense Tech Signal — Tuesday

• A new National Security Presidential Memorandum directs closer collaboration with AI firms and orders revisions to prior military AI guardrails, signaling a policy shift in how the Pentagon develops and governs operational AI.
• The National Reconnaissance Office issued a contract modification to accelerate BlackSky’s AROS broad-area collection satellites, reinforcing demand for proliferated commercial ISR capacity.
• The House Armed Services Committee advanced a “right to repair” proposal to secure government-purpose rights to technical data and software in DoD contracts, potentially reshaping IP, sustainment, and software access models across defense acquisition.

Sources:

1) Breaking Defense — https://breakingdefense.com/2026/06/trump-memo-on-ai-aims-to-avoid-repeat-of-anthropic-debacle/
2) SpaceNews — https://spacenews.com/blacksky-to-accelerate-broad-area-collection-work-under-nro-contract-modification/
3) RealClearDefense — https://www.realcleardefense.com/2026/06/09/hasc_advances_right_to_repair_proposal_industry_pushes_back_1187503.html

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