🔎 Defense Tech Signal — Tuesday

• U.S. Cyber Command is seeking a 2,660% increase in AI funding to scale machine learning across ISR, offensive, and defensive cyber operations, signaling a major budgetary pivot toward AI-native cyber capabilities.
• The Pentagon selected five U.S. bases to pilot counter-drone energy systems, including sites on the southern border, indicating a move toward operationalizing directed-energy defenses for domestic installation protection.
• SOCOM will test SkyFi’s commercial satellite tasking platform to push near-real-time imagery directly to tactical tablets, advancing demand-driven, commercial ISR integration at the edge.

Sources:

1) Breaking Defense — https://breakingdefense.com/2026/05/cybercom-requests-2660-percent-increase-in-ai-for-cyber-operations/
2) Defense News — https://www.defensenews.com/industry/techwatch/2026/05/11/5-us-bases-selected-for-anti-drone-pilot-program/
3) SpaceNews — https://spacenews.com/special-operations-forces-test-mobile-platform-for-direct-satellite-imagery-access/

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