The U.S. Department of War says it is moving to an AI-first posture across the military, aiming to put the most advanced frontier models directly into the hands of millions of personnel.
In a new press release announcing its Artificial Intelligence Acceleration Strategy, the Department says the initiative, mandated by President Trump, is designed to eliminate bureaucratic barriers, speed experimentation and integrate cutting-edge AI across warfighting, intelligence and enterprise operations to cement US military dominance.
Says Secretary of War Pete Hegseth,
“We will unleash experimentation, eliminate bureaucratic barriers, focus our investments and demonstrate the execution approach needed to ensure we lead in military AI. We will become an ‘AI-first’ warfighting force across all domains.”
The Department says the strategy takes a wartime approach to delivery, prioritizing battlefield decision-making, rapid intelligence conversion and modernization of daily workflows in direct support of more than three million Department of War personnel.
In a new CNBC interview, Pentagon Chief Technology Officer Emil Michael says the large-scale deployment of commercial frontier models has begun across the military.
“We’ve already deployed Gemini, Google’s model, to three million Department of War employees, and we’ve had almost a million unique users, which means that people are clamoring for this stuff.”
Michael says the rollout will expand rapidly in the coming weeks, with additional models added across both classified and unclassified systems.
“So soon in the next month or so, we’re going to bring on Grok, xAI’s model, and then hopefully some of the other frontier models as well. But the idea is we want the newest model in front of everyone across every classified and unclassified network so they could do their work in the most optimal way.”
When asked about the public outcry about Grok generating sexualized images of women, Michael says the War Department will use the chatbot because “in our country, those images are lawful.”
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