[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"branding":3,"analytics":7,"article-army-cyber-command-picks-a-bid-for-echotribble-ai-agents":10,"sections":52},{"siteName":4,"siteTagline":5,"publisherName":4,"contactEmail":6},"The Revision","Tech news, decoded.","editor@therevision.news",{"gaMeasurementId":8,"adsenseClientId":9},"G-ZW2MV82GYR","ca-pub-8533917693782264",{"article":11},{"id":12,"slug":13,"title":14,"dek":15,"body_md":16,"tags_json":17,"published_at":18,"created_at":19,"updated_at":20,"status":21,"review_note":22,"review_notes":23,"image_url":22,"persona_id":22,"persona_name":22,"section":38,"tags":39,"sources":44,"feedback":51,"feedback_at":22,"cost_usd":51,"total_tokens":51},11906,"army-cyber-command-picks-a-bid-for-echotribble-ai-agents","Army Cyber Command Picks a Bid for ECHOTRIBBLE AI Agents","The Army chose one company's bid for software agents that hunt targets in computer networks, with a statement of work and contract still to come.","Army Cyber Command has chosen one company's bid for ECHOTRIBBLE, a programme to build AI agents that hunt down targets in computer networks.\n\nThe command's technology centre and the Cyber Fusion Innovation Center (CFIC) made the selection on October 8, according to CFIC's website. The site says a statement of work and a contract will follow. That makes this a pick, not a signed deal. The documents that fix scope and price come next.\n\nArmy Cyber Command and CFIC were asked for comment. Neither had responded at the time of writing.\n\nAn AI agent, in the sense used here, is software that carries out a series of actions toward a goal without a person approving each step. ECHOTRIBBLE applies that idea to network targets, which fits a long-running Pentagon interest in cyber operations that move at machine speed. The best-known precedent is the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's 2016 Cyber Grand Challenge, where competing teams' systems found and patched software flaws on their own.\n\nThat event was a staged contest with a prize. ECHOTRIBBLE is a procurement: one vendor, one contract, and an Army customer. The shift from demonstration to buying matters more than the selection itself, because contracts are where decisions about oversight get written down.\n\nThe open question is how much of the hunting a human operator will have to approve, and whether the contract will say so in terms the public can read.","[\"us-army\",\"ai-agents\",\"cyber-command\",\"defense\"]","2026-10-20T13:54:04.000Z","2026-10-20T15:26:40.284Z","2026-10-20T15:26:40.587Z","published",null,[24,30,34],{"id":25,"reviewer":26,"round":27,"reason":28,"status":29},"editor-r1","editor",1,"Remove the meta language about missing source data ('the material available does not name the winning company', 'the source does not spell out the mission', 'It also says nothing about...'), and state plainly what is known; the speculation about offensive intent and human control rests on one word ('targets') and needs supporting context or should be cut; note that the Army or CFIC was asked for comment (or was not reachable); add the year to the October 8 date; and end with a real closing parag","resolved",{"id":31,"reviewer":26,"round":32,"reason":33,"status":29},"editor-r2",2,"The meta language is gone, the year is added and the closing is real, but the draft still never says Army Cyber Command or CFIC was asked for comment (or couldn't be reached), and \"not independently confirmed\" doesn't cover that; add that line, and trim the speculation that the agents act as autonomous \"actors\" on the network, since it rests on the single word \"targets\" in the source.",{"id":35,"reviewer":26,"round":36,"reason":37,"status":29},"editor-r3",3,"The draft still never says Army Cyber Command or CFIC was asked for comment or could not be reached (\"had not commented publicly\" is not the same thing), so add that line; also remove claims the truncated source can't support (that the notice doesn't name the winner, that nothing published defines \"targets\", that the Army hasn't said how it will evaluate the programme, and that today's agents are \"far less predictable\"), and trim the defensive-versus-offensive speculation that rests on the singl","ai",[40,41,42,43],"us-army","ai-agents","cyber-command","defense",[45,48],{"name":46,"url":47},"The Next Web","https:\u002F\u002Fthenextweb.com\u002Fnews\u002Fus-army-echotribble-ai-agents-arcyber-intercept",{"name":49,"url":50},"Tom's Hardware","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.tomshardware.com\u002Ftech-industry\u002Fartificial-intelligence\u002Fus-army-reportedly-developing-program-that-would-deploy-ai-agents-to-autonomously-seek-and-destroy-targets-in-enemy-digital-infrastructures-experts-warn-echotribble-program-could-have-disastrous-consequences",0,{"sections":53},[54,58,63,68,73,78,83,88,93,98,103,108,113,118],{"name":55,"slug":38,"count":56,"latest_published_at":57},"AI",7043,"2026-10-20T18:00:00.000Z",{"name":59,"slug":60,"count":61,"latest_published_at":62},"Security","security",1018,"2026-10-20T17:25:00.000Z",{"name":64,"slug":65,"count":66,"latest_published_at":67},"Policy","policy",546,"2026-10-20T13:11:23.000Z",{"name":69,"slug":70,"count":71,"latest_published_at":72},"Deals","deals",536,"2026-10-20T15:55:20.000Z",{"name":74,"slug":75,"count":76,"latest_published_at":77},"Hardware","hardware",271,"2026-10-20T15:25:03.000Z",{"name":79,"slug":80,"count":81,"latest_published_at":82},"Consumer Tech","consumer-tech",253,"2026-10-20T18:12:50.000Z",{"name":84,"slug":85,"count":86,"latest_published_at":87},"Science","science",207,"2026-10-20T12:50:00.000Z",{"name":89,"slug":90,"count":91,"latest_published_at":92},"Startups","startups",136,"2026-10-20T16:32:21.000Z",{"name":94,"slug":95,"count":96,"latest_published_at":97},"Software","software",134,"2026-10-20T14:57:15.000Z",{"name":99,"slug":100,"count":101,"latest_published_at":102},"Dev Tools","dev-tools",119,"2026-10-20T13:00:00.000Z",{"name":104,"slug":105,"count":106,"latest_published_at":107},"General","general",88,"2026-10-20T09:36:16.000Z",{"name":109,"slug":110,"count":111,"latest_published_at":112},"Gaming","gaming",82,"2026-10-20T18:45:39.000Z",{"name":114,"slug":115,"count":116,"latest_published_at":117},"Reviews","reviews",38,"2026-10-20T12:00:00.000Z",{"name":119,"slug":120,"count":121,"latest_published_at":122},"How-To","how-to",8,"2026-10-05T09:00:00.000Z"]