This Friday INSIDER Daily Digest starts with big news for Army artillery, the Air Force adding protection to the platform that took part in the Iran rescue mission, the Space Force is looking to use more AI, and more.

The Army is making a big move with its artillery budget:

Army plans nine-fold boost to artillery R&D fund, guts Paladin research

The Army wants to see an 824% surge in fiscal year 2027 research and development dollars for an artillery budget account tied to its Mobile Tactical Cannon (MTC) effort, recently released budget documents reveal.

The Air Force is beefing up helicopter protection:

Air Force eyeing new survivability system for HH-60W

The Air Force wants to add enhancements to the HH-60W Jolly Green II that would better protect the combat search and rescue helicopter against infrared-guided missiles, according to a recently issued market survey.

AI will start to play a big part in space operations:

Space Force looking into AI training for space domain awareness

The Space Force is looking for commercial large language model artificial intelligence systems to be used to train in space domain awareness, according to a notice posted yesterday.

And in case you missed it:

Court denies Anthropic a stay, but expedites hearing on supply-chain risk designation

A federal appeals court has denied Anthropic's emergency motion for a stay of the Defense Department's designation of the company as a supply chain risk, pending review, while suggesting CEO Dario Amodei's pronouncements about the effect of the DOD action worked against him.