Pentagon Lays Out AI Strategy as It Plans for Future Space Missions
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In brief The Pentagon plans to deploy AI systems across classified and unclassified military networks. xAI’s Grok will be added to the Pentagon’s GenAI.mil platform alongside Google’s Gemini. Public Citizen warned that Grok’s safety record poses national security risks. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said Monday that the Pentagon is moving to make artificial intelligence a core part of the U.S. military’s capability, using a speech at SpaceX’s Starbase facility in Texas to outline how AI and space technologies will shape future operations. Hegseth said the Pentagon’s objective is to become “an AI-first warfighting force across all domains,” including both internal planning systems and frontline operations. “Simply put, the United States must win the strategic competition for 21st century technological supremacy,” Hegseth said, highlighting artificial intelligence, autonomous systems, quantum, hypersonics, and long-range drones. “If you talk to Elon Musk long enough, he will tell you how important hypersonics and long-range drones are, and he’s 100% correct. Space capabilities, directed energy, and biotechnology are the new areas of global competition.” Hegseth said AI will move quickly into broad operational use across the Defense Department. “Very soon, we will have the world’s leading AI models on every unclassified and classified network throughout our department,” he said, calling it “long overdue.” In a nod to the renewed relationship between the Trump Administration and Musk, Hegseth said the Pentagon would begin using Grok. “Today, we’re excited to announce the next frontier AI model company to join GenAI.mil, and that is Grok from xAI, which will go live later this month,” Hegseth said. The xAI deal places Grok within a growing ecosystem of commercial AI tools already used across the federal government, alongside models from OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and Microsoft. Through Pentagon contracts and GSA-approved agreements, these AIs are being used for defense preparation,…
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