Wingman is fully coming to fruition at a time when the Defense Department is actively adopting AI<\/a> and automation across all levels<\/a> of operation. The CDAO<\/a>\u2019s War Data Platform team sponsored the Pentagon\u2019s authority to operate (ATO) process, according to Chirico, in a move to \u201cbreak out the automation suite\u201d and make it available department-wide.<\/p>\n Now, the officials are hustling to scale Wingman across the military departments.<\/p>\n \u201cSo, the nature of a wingman is a digital assistant, essentially. How many people have a to-do list that they get through every single day? Not me. How nice would it be to have a digital assistant help you work through those workflows and delegate work to them for those repeatable tasks? Tasks that maybe don\u2019t require as much critical thinking, but are super important and compliance-based. Oftentimes there has to be good content in a lot of required memorandums,\u201d Chirico said. \u201cYou can look at this from any perspective \u2014 financial management analysts, contracting professionals, logistics professionals \u2014 across the whole spectrum, right?\u201d<\/p>\n She shed light on several emerging and existing Wingman use cases and their early impacts.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Procurement has automated over 150 workflows, leading to an annual cost avoidance of over $37 million a year and saving more than 687,000 work hours,\u201d Chirico said. \u201cSo, that\u2019s a lot of time back in your day, and everybody sure needs it because there\u2019s always more work to be done.\u201d<\/p>\n Her team is also piloting a new position description-writing bot, which will also ensure the posts meet proper requirements ahead of being published.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019ll probably be releasing it soon. We\u2019re still kind of working through a few things and sharing that internally within our own leadership team,\u201d Chirico noted. \u201cBut that\u2019s an example of, like, we\u2019re only bound by our own creativity [with the] the digital assistants that our teams can build out and deploy, and that\u2019s really exciting to me.\u201d<\/p>\n CDAO cyber officials are embedded end-to-end in this work, supporting both the platform\u2019s security and enabling safer and faster platform upgrades.<\/p>\n Chirico invited DOD officials with interest in Wingman to contact the CDAO to identify and discuss current workflows that make sense to automate, or opportunities to refine and expand any existing automations.<\/p>\n \u201cWe want to be an enabler of the military departments, helping to better understand what challenges and outcomes they\u2019re driving toward and how we can best help support them,\u201d she said. \u201cAgain, we don\u2019t want to get in anybody\u2019s way.\u201d<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t \n\t\t\tWritten by Brandi Vincent![\"Brandi](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1778094432_636_Image-from-iOS-2-e1662581202907.jpg\")
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\n\t\t\tBrandi Vincent is a Senior Reporter at DefenseScoop, where she reports on disruptive technologies and associated policies impacting Pentagon and military personnel. Prior to joining SNG, she produced a documentary and worked as a journalist at Nextgov, Snapchat and NBC Network. Brandi grew up in Louisiana and received a master\u2019s degree in journalism from the University of Maryland. She was named Best New Journalist at the 2024 Defence Media Awards.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pentagon\u2019s Chief Digital and AI Office is eager to expand its deployment of a new task automation…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29934,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[24,25,111,11082,10298,19527,223,19528,10867,9574,19529],"class_list":{"0":"post-29933","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ai","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificial-intelligence-ai","11":"tag-cdao","12":"tag-digital-assistants","13":"tag-elizabeth-u201clizu201d-chirico","14":"tag-generative-ai","15":"tag-large-language-model-llm","16":"tag-robotic-process-automation-rpa","17":"tag-uipath","18":"tag-war-data-platform"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}