{"id":217610,"date":"2026-05-20T18:42:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T22:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/20\/senior-dow-tech-official-says-department-ai-use-up-1775-in-past-year-u-s-department-of-war-defense-department-news\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T19:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T23:00:11","slug":"senior-dow-tech-official-says-department-ai-use-up-1775-in-past-year-u-s-department-of-war-defense-department-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/20\/senior-dow-tech-official-says-department-ai-use-up-1775-in-past-year-u-s-department-of-war-defense-department-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Senior DOW Tech Official Says Department AI Use Up 1,775% in Past Year > U.S. Department of War > Defense Department News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.war.gov\/News\/News-Stories\/Article\/Article\/4497743\/senior-dow-tech-official-says-department-ai-use-up-1775-in-past-year\/\">Senior DOW Tech Official Says Department AI Use Up 1,775% in Past Year > U.S. Department of War > Defense Department News<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.war.gov\/News\/News-Stories\/Article\/Article\/4497743\/senior-dow-tech-official-says-department-ai-use-up-1775-in-past-year\/\">https:\/\/www.war.gov\/News\/News-Stories\/Article\/Article\/4497743\/senior-dow-tech-official-says-department-ai-use-up-1775-in-past-year\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-20 18:42:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.war.gov\">www.war.gov<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Emil Michael highlighted a significant increase in AI usage within the Department of War, observing a 1,775% rise, now totaling around 1.5 million users.<\/li>\n<li>AI is embedded across three key levels: enterprise, intelligence, and warfighting, with a focus on enhancing decision-making and combat effectiveness.<\/li>\n<li>The Pentagon&#8217;s Drone Dominance Program has been discussed as a showcase of AI&#8217;s practical deployment, with a goal to acquire 200,000 drones by 2027.<\/li>\n<li>The department is creating a more competitive environment for drone vendors to ensure diverse and up-to-date technology.<\/li>\n<li>To attract talent, the department emphasizes patriotism and the meaningful impact of their work, aiming to appeal to recent graduates.<\/li>\n<li>The panel stressed the importance of the mission and the sense of purpose in attracting and retaining skilled employees.<\/li>\n<li>Each panelist expressed a commitment to better serving special operations forces and acknowledged their critical role in national defense.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senior DOW Tech Official Says Department AI Use Up 1,775% in Past Year > U.S&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":217611,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/media.defense.gov\/2024\/Apr\/12\/2003438369\/1280\/1280\/0\/230515-D-PM193-1941C.JPG","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217610"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217612,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217610\/revisions\/217612"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}