Artificial Intelligence Strategy for the Department of War

MEMORANDUM FOR SENIOR PENTAGON LEADERSHIP
COMMANDERS OF THE COMBATANT COMMANDS
DEFENSE AGENCY AND DOW FIELD ACTIVITY DIRECTORS
SUBJECT: Artificial Intelligence Strategy for the Department of War
Accelerating America’s Military AI Dominance

President Trump makes clear in Executive Order 14179, “It is the policy of the
United States to sustain and enhance America’s global Artificial Intelligence (AI) dominance
in order to promote human flourishing, economic competitiveness, and national security.”
In the national st:curity domain, AI-enabled warfare and AI-enabled capability development
will re-define the character of military affairs over the next decade. This transformation is a
race – fueled by the accelerating pace of commercial AI innovation coming out of
America’s private sector. The United States Military must build on its lead over our
adversaries in integrating this technology, established during President Trump’s first term, to
make our Warfighters more lethal and efficient. To this end, aligned with America’s AI
Action Plan, I direct the Department of War to accelerate America’s Military AI Dominance
by becoming an “AI-first” warfighting force across all components, from front to back.
The Department will achieve this objective by:

• Unleashing experimentation with America’s leading AI models Departmentwide, and rewarding AI-first re-conceptions of legacy approaches;
• Aggressively identifying and eliminating bureaucratic barriers to deeper
  integration, which are vestiges of legacy information technology and modes of
  warfare;
• Focusing our investment to leverage America’s core asymmetric advantages in
  AI computing, model innovation, entrepreneurial dynamism, capital markets, and
  combat-proven operational data from two decades of military and intelligence
  operations that no other military can replicate; and
• Executing a set of “Pace-Setting Projects” (PSPs) that will demonstrate the
  accelerated pace of execution, focus, and ethos we need to stay ahead. The PSPs
  will also serve as tangible, outcome-oriented vehicles for rapidly completing our
  buildout of the foundational AI enablers (infrastructure, data, models, policies,
  and talent) needed to accelerate AI integration across the entire Department.

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