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US War Department

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Development timeline

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2026-10-03: Hegseth announces an autonomous-warfare command

2026-10-03: A war study is among six announced initiatives

2026-09-20: PURSUE adds unidentified-phenomena files

2026-09-17: The War Department CTO asserts a national-security priority

2026-09-15: An air force secretary makes the first official admission of weapons in orbit

2026-09-07: Armed services disable ad identifiers after brokered data targeted troops

2026-07-21: An army burns a year of unlimited tokens in six weeks

2026-06-24: A missile-defense test autonomously downs drones with directed energy

2026-06-02: Three navies develop undersea drones to guard data cables

2026-05-09: The first UAP tranche releases 162 records and 28 videos

2026-05-08: A records system launches to release tens of millions of UAP documents

2026-05-03: The Pentagon spreads classified workloads across seven other labs

2026-04-29: Google signs a classified deal for any lawful government purpose

2026-04-20: The NSA runs the model its own department called a supply chain risk

2026-04-17: Google is in talks to put Gemini in classified environments

2026-03-28: Drone swarms take a US airbase out of wartime operation

2026-03-27: A court keeps the blacklisted lab's contracts alive

2026-03-22: The targeting platform becomes an official military program

2026-03-18: A combat drone software IPO surges 700%

2026-03-10: Anthropic sues to block its own blacklisting

2026-03-10: Havana Syndrome devices are confirmed tested on animals

2026-03-06: The supply-chain-risk designation is formalized

2026-03-05: Claude remains central to strikes despite the White House ban

2026-03-05: A submarine sinks a warship for the first time since World War II

2026-03-03: Anthropic pitched the drone swarm contest it had drawn a line against

2026-03-02: The model the White House banned processes targeting hours later

2026-02-28: OpenAI takes the classified deal Anthropic refused

2026-02-28: The Pentagon demands unrestricted access and Anthropic refuses

2026-02-27: Anthropic refuses surveillance and autonomous weapons work

2026-02-24: ODNI says the files will soon be declassified

2026-02-24: xAI wins battlefield placement where Anthropic restricted use

2026-02-17: The Pentagon threatens to cut ties with Anthropic over usage limits

2026-02-17: SpaceX and its own subsidiary compete for a drone swarm prize

2026-02-16: Claude was reportedly used in the capture of Maduro

2026-02-16: A nuclear reactor is airlifted for the first time

2026-02-12: A 20-kW laser downs drones over US soil

2026-02-12: The Pentagon pushes models onto classified networks for targeting

2026-02-11: Cartel drones are disabled over US soil

2026-01-05: The Department of War evaluates YC SAFEs

2025-12-23: The War Department partners with xAI on GenAI.mil

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US War Department
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