{"id":31607,"date":"2026-05-07T22:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T22:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/31607\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T22:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T22:39:08","slug":"dod-planning-to-address-compute-bottleneck-that-could-hinder-ai-proliferation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/31607\/","title":{"rendered":"DOD planning to address compute \u2018bottleneck\u2019 that could hinder AI proliferation"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Pentagon is preparing to take additional steps to address a major bottleneck that could limit the military\u2019s ability to proliferate artificial intelligence capabilities throughout the force: compute.<\/p>\n

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Pentagon CTO Emil Michael and other senior officials are pushing the department to accelerate AI adoption, touting its benefits for warfighting and back-office functions.<\/p>\n

Chief Digital and AI Officer Cameron Stanley noted that the technology has demonstrated its utility during the Iran war.<\/p>\n

\u201cOperation Epic Fury leveraged Palantir\u2019s Maven Smart System in order to conduct strike missions across the entire battlespace \u2014 13,000 targets in 38 days,\u201d Stanley said Thursday at the AI+ Expo. \u201cBut what we saw from CDAO is not just the targets, but the individual contributors and what they were doing in leveraging this absolutely fantastic, exquisite tool. We saw four times increase in all network utilization \u2026 and we also saw 894 million tokens per day in agentic workflows that allow us to take all of this data, synthesize the data and make better decisions faster on the battlefield.\u201d<\/p>\n

He noted that the Pentagon also recently inked agreements with eight companies<\/a> \u2014 SpaceX, OpenAI, Google, NVIDIA, Reflection, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, and Oracle \u2014 to deploy their AI capabilities on the department\u2019s classified networks.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese are the cloud service providers and frontier labs and open-source model developers that we are going to leverage as we develop the next generation of AI-enabled capability for the warfighter,\u201d Stanley said. \u201cNot only are we like looking to empower them with the right technology, we\u2019re also making sure that those bureaucratic roadblocks \u2014 things like ATOs and ATCs, things like capacity from a compute perspective \u2014 are all taken care of \u2026 for these higher order models in classified environments.\u201d<\/p>\n

Compute is currently a top concern, he noted.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy biggest fear is really not the adversary at this point. My biggest fear is, can we keep up \u2026 [with] the insatiable appetite of American warfighters to accept and leverage technology?\u201d Stanley said. \u201cWe are seeing a dramatic increase, not only in the utilization of our systems, but also the amount of compute that\u2019s required for us to actually keep up with warfighters who are decisively engaged. And so the department right now is looking at a variety of different ways that we can increase our capacity in every domain, in every classification level, to make sure that that insatiable appetite is satisfied from the lowest possible operator to the most senior commander.\u201d<\/p>\n

He continued: \u201cWe\u2019ve handed our warfighters a Ferrari, and my only sleepless nights come from \u2026 making sure we never, ever run out of the high-octane fuel that they need, which is compute. We have to get ahead of this, and we will. There will be announcements coming out in due course. But compute is a bottleneck, and we are going to get after it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\"Jon<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tWritten by Jon Harper
\n\t\t\tJon Harper is Editor-in-Chief of DefenseScoop. He leads an award-winning team of journalists in providing breaking news and in-depth analysis on military technology and the ways in which it is shaping how the Defense Department operates and modernizes. You can also follow him on X: @Jon_Harper_\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pentagon is preparing to take additional steps to address a major bottleneck that could limit the military\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31608,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[24,25,111,20313,11082,6013,11084,11085,1605,20314,6515,1599],"class_list":{"0":"post-31607","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-cameron-stanley","12":"tag-cdao","13":"tag-compute","14":"tag-defense-secretary-pete-hegseth","15":"tag-emil-michael","16":"tag-iran-war","17":"tag-maven-smart-system","18":"tag-operation-epic-fury","19":"tag-pete-hegseth"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31607","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=31607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}