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WASHINGTON — The Pentagon announced Monday that OpenAI’s ChatGPT will join xAI’s Grok and Google Gemini on its GenAI.mil platform — with a Pentagon official telling Breaking Defense this morning that the site might “potentially” add a fourth model in the future. Sec. Pete Hegseth and Pentagon CTO Emil Michael officially launched the site just two months ago to bring popular Large Language Models to all 3 million uniformed military, civil service, and contractor employees of the Defense Department. Posters bearing Hegseth’s likeness over the exhortation “I want you to use to use AI: Go to GenAI.mil today” have been…

A Pratt Whitney F135 engine. Credit: Mike Mareen/Shutterstock.com. RTX has received a contract valued at up to $230.56m for the procurement of long lead time materials, components, and associated work needed to maintain the delivery schedule for F135 Lot 20 propulsion systems. The contract supports the production of 138 propulsion units that will be supplied to the Marine Corps, Navy, US Air Force as well as non-US Department of Defense (DoD) partners and Foreign Military Sales (FMS) customers. Discover B2B Marketing That Performs Combine business intelligence and editorial excellence to reach engaged professionals across 36 leading media platforms. Find out…

Despite the structural constraints outlined in the previous article, early capability patterns are beginning to emerge across parts of the procure-to-pay (P2P) market. These patterns do not represent a broad architectural reset, nor are they consistently implemented across platforms. They are uneven, often fragile and dependent on legacy foundations. However, taken together, they point to how some P2P systems are beginning to move beyond purely workflow-centric automation toward more adaptive behavior. The key characteristic of these emerging capabilities is that they change behavior as well as efficiency. The first pattern is confidence-based automation rather than binary rules Instead of treating…

WASHINGTON — Deliveries of Lockheed Martin-built C-130J aircraft to the US Air Force have been halted due to a problem with integrating a new communications upgrade, according to the service. “This issue involves a component incompatibility that was discovered during testing,” an Air Force spokesperson told Breaking Defense. “Aircraft deliveries are temporarily paused to ensure every C-130J meets the rigorous safety, performance, and airworthiness standards required before the US Government can accept them.” The delay was first reported by Aviation Week. The C-130J is the latest generation model of Lockheed Martin’s C-130 program, typically acquired as a replacement for older…

Russia has concentrated at least 15 Su-57 stealth fighter jets at the Dzyomgi air base in the Khabarovsk region, about 280 kilometers from the Chinese border, according to satellite images published by the AviVector project and reported by the Ukrainian outlet Militarnyi. Satellite imagery dated February 9 shows 15 Su-57 aircraft parked in the open […]

News story Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper responds to the sentencing of Jimmy Lai in Hong Kong today. From: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office and The Rt Hon Yvette Cooper MP Published 9 February 2026 Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper said: British National Jimmy Lai was today sentenced to 20 years in prison in Hong Kong for exercising his right to freedom of expression, following a politically motivated prosecution. Beijing’s National Security Law was imposed on Hong Kong to silence China’s critics. For the 78-year-old, this is tantamount to a life sentence. I remain deeply concerned for Mr Lai’s health,…

PARIS — German startup Hypersonica claimed a “significant” step toward delivering Europe’s first sovereign hypersonic strike capability by 2029, after the company’s first hypersonic test flight in Norway pushed its missile prototype to more than Mach 6 and a range of more than 300 kilometers.The startup based near Munich plans further test flights to demonstrate advanced flight control at hypersonic speeds and complex maneuverability, it said in a statement on Tuesday. Hypersonica said it’s the first privately funded European defense company to achieve hypersonic flight, until now mostly the domain of government-funded secretive multi-year projects.Hypersonica says it’s using modular design…

C-17As line up on the flight-line. Credit: Boeing. Boeing has secured a contract from the US Air Force (USAF) to deliver a modernised flight deck for the C-17A Globemaster III. The contract covers the design, production, integration, qualification, and military certification of updated avionics and mission-critical systems for the aircraft. Discover B2B Marketing That Performs Combine business intelligence and editorial excellence to reach engaged professionals across 36 leading media platforms. Find out more Under the agreement, Boeing will replace existing flight deck equipment with new technology based on a modular open systems architecture (MOSA). This approach is intended to enable…

The war in Sudan is a battle for land and resources. Over nearly three years of conflict, the Sudanese Armed Forces—the country’s regular army—and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces have traded territory at an unimaginable human cost. Since April 2023, more than 12 million people have been displaced within Sudan or sought refuge in neighboring countries. Half the population faces severe food shortages, and acute hunger afflicts several regions, including Darfur. Evidence of massacres has been covered up and bodies from street fighting in Khartoum are still buried under the rubble, making the death toll impossible to count; it is…

US Department of State Press Statement Marco Rubio, Secretary of State February 9, 2026 The Hong Kong High Court’s decision to sentence Jimmy Lai to 20 years is an unjust and tragic conclusion to this case. It shows the world that Beijing will go to extraordinary lengths to silence those who advocate fundamental freedoms in Hong Kong, casting aside the international commitments Beijing made in the 1984 Sino-British Joint Declaration. After enduring a trial lasting two years, and detention in prison for more than five, Mr. Lai and his family have suffered enough. The United States urges the authorities to…