U.S. War Department Launches Artificial Intelligence Acceleration Strategy

The U.S. Department of War on Tuesday launched an Artificial Intelligence Acceleration Strategy under a directive from President Donald Trump, aimed at rapidly embedding AI across military operations, intelligence processes and enterprise functions.

The strategy is designed to compress development timelines, remove internal approval barriers and expand experimentation with AI-enabled systems across all mission areas supporting more than three million military personnel and civilian staff.

“We will unleash experimentation, eliminate bureaucratic barriers, focus our investments and demonstrate the execution approach needed to ensure we lead in military AI,” Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said. “We will become an ‘AI-first’ warfighting force across all domains.”

The Pentagon described the effort as a wartime delivery model built around three pillars: warfighting, intelligence and enterprise operations. In warfighting, the department plans to connect operational units with U.S. technology firms to test AI-enabled concepts, deploy AI agents for battle management and decision support from campaign planning through kill chain execution, and expand AI-driven simulations to anticipate adversary capabilities.

On the intelligence front, the strategy seeks to accelerate the conversion of technical intelligence into deployable capabilities, reducing the time required to move from data collection to operational use and enabling more dynamic deterrence planning.

Enterprise initiatives include GenAI.mil, which will provide department-wide access to generative AI models from U.S. companies such as Google and xAI for personnel cleared at Information Level 5 and above, as well as the development of secure AI agents to automate administrative and workflow processes.

Execution will be driven by seven pace-setting projects, each assigned a single accountable leader and aggressive timelines, which officials said are intended to establish a new execution standard for AI programs.

The department also announced expanded investment in AI computing infrastructure, broader access to operational data, and new efforts to recruit technical talent through federal initiatives including the Office of Personnel Management’s Tech Force program.