"The new AI/ML officer area of concentration will begin accepting candidates from the Army's existing officer corps in January through the Volunteer Transfer Incentive Program, according to an announcement published Tuesday. It's not clear how many AI officers the Army plans to train as part of its initial cadre of candidates, but it wants to have all of them formally reclassified by the end of the 2026 fiscal year."
"As we've reported over the past couple of years, those systems are numerous. The Army has signed deals with OpenAI to run pilot programs in developing warfighting and enterprise domain AI systems, has signed a massive $10 billion contract with Palantir to provide various AI and ML services for the next decade, and has brought in smaller outfits to use AI for things like target tracking."
"Young Bang, the US Army's deputy assistant secretary for acquisition, logistics, and technology under the Biden administration, said last year that the Army didn't want to get into the business of developing its own AI systems when the private sector was already doing such a great job. "We want to adopt third-party-generated AI algorithms as fast as y'all are building them," Bang told the industry at an AWS conference last summer."
The Army will open an AI/ML officer area of concentration to current officers in January via the Volunteer Transfer Incentive Program and aims to reclassify the initial cadre by the end of fiscal 2026. Training will be at the graduate level and emphasize hands-on experience building, deploying, and maintaining AI-enabled systems. The Army already uses numerous commercial AI solutions, including OpenAI pilot programs, a $10 billion Palantir contract for AI/ML services, and smaller vendors for functions like target tracking. Leadership intends to adopt third-party AI algorithms rather than develop all systems in-house, creating uniformed experts to sustain capabilities.
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