No more 'swivel chair': Driscoll launches 'hackathon' sprint to link sensors and shooters

No more 'swivel chair': Driscoll launches 'hackathon' sprint to link sensors and shooters

A new "hackathon" sprint series will bring in experts from several defense companies to break into current Army sensing and shooting systems and open them up to link across an all-encompassing architecture. “We’ve known for a long time that our systems, weapons and sensors need to talk to each other so that we can dominate the battlefield,” Army Secretary Dan Driscoll said in an announcement today. “The war in Ukraine showed the world that speed…

Army and Defense Sector Announce Hackathon

MAY 6, 2026 — Secretary of the Army Dan Driscoll and leaders from Anduril, Boeing, General Dynamics, L3Harris, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Palantir, Perennial Autonomy, and RTX announced today that they will “sprint” to conduct a series of combined Army and defense industry partnered hackathon events to integrate critical military technology systems. This ‘Right to Integrate’ hackathon, or R2I, is an Army-Industry partnered sprint that wi…