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Sen. Elizabeth Warren gave Defense Secretary Hegseth and seven AI companies until July 20 to release full military AI contract terms and confirm whether deals permit domestic surveillance or lethal autonomous weapons use.
Read the story →GAO's July 2026 weapons assessment reveals the Army will store nearly 10,000 IVAS 1.0/1.1 goggles after $1.8B in development, pivoting to Anduril's Soldier Borne Mission Command program built on 260,000 hours of soldier feedback.
VA OIG found the PATS-R patient advocate system was miscategorized as low risk after a 2023 cloud migration, with 77% of users unaware they could access veterans' medical records. VA concurred with all five recommendations and raised the rating to moderate.
Minburn Technology filed a protest at the Court of Federal Claims on June 11, 2026, challenging the Pentagon's $9.7 billion Core Enterprise Technology Agreement award to Dell Federal Systems, alleging DoD imposed mandatory exclusive ordering terms after award and that Dell's GSA schedule contract fails minimum eligibility criteria.
DISA posted a sources-sought notice on June 16, 2026, for the Army Endpoint Security Event Management System, a consolidated $850M recompete covering Army enterprise and tactical networks. Incumbent Everforth ECS holds both current contracts, both expiring in 2027.
Dell Federal Systems was awarded a $1,437,934,084 firm-fixed-price call order on June 15, 2026, to renew Microsoft 365 enterprise licenses for the Air Force through April 30, 2029. The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center issued the sole-source award under BPA N66001-26-A-0051.
The Navy awarded Dell Federal Systems a $9.69 billion, five-year blanket purchase agreement consolidating Microsoft 365 licenses and cloud subscriptions across DoD, the Intelligence Community, and the Coast Guard, projecting $422 million in annual savings.
The DoD Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office raised Scale AI's Other Transaction Authority ceiling from $100M to $500M, citing department-wide demand that exceeded the original agreement's capacity.
Draft White House policy language would establish that elected government — not private AI companies — determines lawful use of technology under federal contracts. The move follows the Anthropic/DoD dispute and a broader renegotiation of AI safety testing access at Commerce.
May 1, 2026 announcement covers AWS, Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, SpaceX, NVIDIA, Reflection AI, and Oracle. CTO Emil Michael: 'It's irresponsible to be reliant on any one partner.' Anthropic notably absent.
The Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability has moved over $3.9 billion in task orders since December 2022. The Pentagon is now preparing a follow-on solicitation with explicit emphasis on 'greater visibility into cloud spending.'
The Department of Homeland Security moved to its Cumulus centralized cloud vehicle with non-competitive block-one awards to the four major hyperscalers. Contracts have 1-year base periods and up to four option years. Financial details redacted. Small firms should pay attention to the downstream services layer.
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