WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon said it has formally notified Anthropic PBC that it has deemed the artificial intelligence (AI) company and its products a risk to the US supply chain.

Until recently, Anthropic provided the only AI system that could operate in the Pentagon’s classified cloud.

Anthropic Chief Executive Officer Dario Amodei had been negotiating for weeks with Emil Michael, under-secretary of defense for research and engineering, to hammer out a contract governing the Pentagon’s access to Anthropic’s technology.

Source: Bloomberg
Associated URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-05/pentagon-says-it-s-told-anthropic-the-firm-is-supply-chain-risk

MÉRIGNAC, Fr. -- Exosens announced that its U.S. subsidiary, Photonis Defense, has been awarded a firm-fixed-price Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity contract by the U.S. Army Contracting Command, covering the development, production, and testing of the U.S. Army’s Binocular Night Observation Device.

The contract has a maximum value of US$352.6 million and an estimated completion date of February 27, 2033.

Specific work locations and funding will be determined with each task order issued throughout the program. Photonis Defense will leverage its U.S.-based engineering and manufacturing capabilities, including the Sturbridge facility, to support the program.

Source: Exosens
Associated URL: https://www.exosens.com/news/photonis-defense-awarded-us-army-binod-contract

ROME, It. -- BAE Systems OneArc was awarded a contract in December 2025 from the Italian Ministry of Defense to modernize the Italian Army’s virtual training ecosystem with VBS4, OneArc’s virtual training and mission rehearsal environment, and Mantle, its terrain generation platform.

The five-year contract replaces legacy VBS3-based systems with a VBS4 capability, new training workstations, fires integration and next-generation terrain generation tools.

The Italian Army relies on virtual environments to sustain critical procedural training across armored and aviation crews, FIRES operators, snipers, and Joint Terminal Attack Controllers.

The company notes that the upgrade ensures long-term interoperability with NATO and allied partners who already rely on VBS4, Blue IG and Mantle technologies for mission rehearsal and collective training.

Source: BAE Systems
Associated URL: https://www.baesystems.com/en/article/italian-army-selects-bae-systems-onearrc-s-vbs4-and-mantle-to-modernize-enterprise-virtual-training-capability