The Department of War is applying AI across three broad categories: enterprise efficiency, intelligence analysis, and warfighting, with pace-setting projects in each to demonstrate capability and break down barriers.

Michael outlines the three-pronged AI strategy: enterprise use cases for efficiency, intelligence analysis to augment human analysts with fused data from multiple sources, and warfighting applications including war gaming and scenario planning. ✦ AI generated

Emil Michael · No Priors · 2026-01-15 · original ↗

So we simplified it. and say, there's three sort of broad categories we're going to deploy it on. One is enterprise use cases, like any company would use it for efficiencies, right? The second is intelligence. We get a lot of intelligence from satellites, from all the things the United States does across the enterprise that previously used human analysts for. And so if you could improve the leverage of the human analyst by keying up to them, here's 10 things we saw that you should look at. Man, you're going to make that analyst way more efficient, right? And then, well, if I could take this type of intelligence and fuse it with this type of intelligence, I'm going to make that analyst really capable because usually one type of analyst looks at one type of intelligence. So the more data I can aggregate from all these sources, the more intelligence we can use, which is a great deterrent because we have the best intelligence collection in the world. And then third for war fighting. So war fighting is a complex sort of thing. You're doing war gaming, you're doing planning, you know, there's a lot of formalities and how you execute orders, how you simulate what might happen if you do different scenarios. So across those three areas, enterprise, intelligence, war gaming, we'll have a few pace setting projects within each of them.

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