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by preachermon 363 days ago
Official press release, https://www.army.mil/article/286317/army_launches_detachment...

he U.S. Army is establishing Detachment 201: The Army’s Executive Innovation Corps, a new initiative designed to fuse cutting-edge tech expertise with military innovation. On June 13, 2025, the Army will officially swear in four tech leaders.

Det. 201 is an effort to recruit senior tech executives to serve part-time in the Army Reserve as senior advisors. In this role they will work on targeted projects to help guide rapid and scalable tech solutions to complex problems. By bringing private-sector know-how into uniform, Det. 201 is supercharging efforts like the Army Transformation Initiative, which aims to make the force leaner, smarter, and more lethal.

The four new Army Reserve Lt. Cols. are

Shyam Sankar, Chief Technology Officer for Palantir;

Andrew Bosworth, Chief Technology Officer of Meta;

Kevin Weil, Chief Product Officer of OpenAI; and

Bob McGrew, advisor at Thinking Machines Lab and former Chief Research Officer for OpenAI.

So yes, Meta's CTO is now a high ranking army officer