Creating An
AI-First
War Department

ENTERPRISE

Executing the Department-wide deployment of all AI tools and agents.

INTELLIGENCE

Maximizing the utility of intelligence data to achieve warfighting.

WARFIGHTING

Warfighters have the AI-enabled capabilities necessary to train, fight, and win.

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Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office

Accelerating DoW adoption of data, analytics, and artificial intelligence (AI) from the boardroom to the
battlefield to enable decision advantage.
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Programs and Projects

Achieving an “AI-first” warfighting force by executing a set of “Pace-Setting Projects” (PSP)
that will demonstrate the accelerated pace of execution, focus, and ethos we need to stay ahead.

Warfighting

Swarm Forge

Competitive mechanism to iteratively discover, test, and scale novel ways of fighting with and against AI-enabled capabilities.

Warfighting

Agent Network

Unleashing AI agent development and experimentation for AI-enabled battle management and decision support.

Warfighting

Ender’s Foundry

Accelerating AI-enabled simulation capabilities to ensure we stay ahead of AI-enabled adversaries.

Intelligence

Open Arsenal

Accelerating the TechINT-to-capability development pipeline, turning intel into weapons in hours not years.

Intelligence

Project Grant

Enabling transformation of deterrence from static postures and speculation to dynamic pressure with interpretable results.

Enterprise

GenAI.mil

Putting America’s world-leading AI models directly in the hands of our civilian and military personnel, at all classification levels to empower AI experimentation and transformation.

Enterprise

Enterprise Agents

Building a playbook for rapid and secure AI agent development and deployment to transform enterprise workflows.

MSS

Maven Smart System

A tactical AI platform built to analyze and fuse data sensor data for real-time object detection, tracking, and decision support in combat operations.

WDP

War Data Platform

Designed to focus on and expand the core data integration layer; providing standardized data access that streamlines secure, rapid development and integration of agentic AI and other applications Dept.-wide.