🔎 Defense Tech Signal — Tuesday

• The Defense Intelligence Agency is shifting from application-centric systems to a data-centric architecture and embedding personnel in industry to accelerate enterprise AI adoption.
• TSA released a solicitation for a potential 10-year, $12.9B TSA Gold+ IDIQ to modernize airport screening services, signaling a major recompete across homeland security technology vendors.
• Orbital filed plans with the FCC to deploy up to 100,000 “data center satellites” delivering 10 gigawatts of space-based compute capacity aimed at supporting AI workloads.

Sources:

1) DefenseScoop — https://defensescoop.com/2026/06/29/dia-data-ai-modernization-intelligence/
2) GovConWire — https://www.govconwire.com/articles/tsa-13b-tsa-gold-plus-airport-screening-idiq-solicitation
3) SpaceNews — https://spacenews.com/orbital-files-plans-for-100000-orbital-data-centers/

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