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The US government wants to spend $30.3 million over the next five years on an improved form of lie detector, according to a Department of Defense budget request. The program, called “Polygraph+” or “Polygraph Next”, will focus on scoring algorithms that use artificial intelligence and machine learning and on a technique called “standoff sensing”, which…

The Pentagon’s public account of US service member casualties in the Iran war excludes at least four service members killed in the Middle East since the war began on February 28, The Washington Post reported on Friday, citing six US officials familiar with the Defense Department’s internal casualty accounting data.

The Defense Department announced it will shift from cost accounting to U.S. generally accepted accounting principles. 

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A new instruction approved by Pentagon CIO Kirsten Davies includes procedures for AI-assisted software development as the department adapts for an era of “software-defined warfare.”

The top general in charge of securing and defending the Pentagon’s cyber infrastructure said Thursday that decades of delayed maintenance has left DOD networks increasingly vulnerable in the AI age, adding to the drumbeat of warnings across the field about agent-instigated hacks.

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth at the Pentagon in Washington on July 27, 2026.Photo: Annabelle Gordon/AFP

Pentagon officials are sorting through a flood of industry feedback about the controversial Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program as the department weighs next steps for reform efforts, Defense Department CIO Kirsten Davies said Wednesday.

Killer robots displayed in front of Capitol Hill to protest OpenAI’s Pentagon contract in Washington, D.C., on March 6, 2026.Photo: Lenin Nolly/NurPhoto

Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Prototyping and Experimentation Alexander Lovett, left, shows a drone to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, center, and Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Emil Michael, right, at a display of multi-domain autonomous systems in the Pentagon courtyard, Wednesday, July 16, 2025, in Washington.Photo: Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP