AI on the Battlefield: U.S. Army CTO Dr. Alex Miller on Innovation, Drones, and the Future of Warfighting

And how do you work with the other services? I mean, you're working...

Competitively.

Competitively.

Oh, yeah.

So I'll give you a couple of...

Because

if they are working on their own AI, I mean, now we're in the middle.

I mean, this is so crazy that right now, even as we speak, we're going to get to this week with Chad, GPT-5, et cetera.

But every week, something else comes out.

And you've got all these services and departments.

How does that all coordinate or not?

Sometimes it does sometimes, and that's an unromantic answer.

I'll give you a couple of tangible examples.

For things that really need to be democratized, we actually work really well across the service.

So the CTO for the Navy, Justin, he and I are partners here.

So if he finds something that we're gonna use, generally we can use it.

The CTO for US Central Command, so, Headquarters in Tampa, but owns the Middle East where we we had a lot of the global war on terror joy same thing So she's more of a customer, but if she says here's something that I see that's good for for troopers in my area We'll pick it up and use it somewhere else There are areas where it it makes sense for us to compete on the edges and I'll give you an example so like the Navy is gonna build submarines.

If I find that the Army is building submarines, I think we have a problem.

The Air Force is going to build the collaborative combat aircraft.

Even though the Army has more boats in the Navy and more airplanes or aircraft in the Air Force, they're gonna do that way better than we are.

So I'm going to let them do that because that's their job.

And if I find something that's useful for them, a drone that comes off of their aircraft, an AI model that's good for their cameras, a better way to communicate, a better radio, then we'll share those.

We're actually pretty good at that as a department.

Where we have gotten better in the last six months to a year is finding the things that don't make sense and stopping them, which is actually the hardest thing that I've done as a professional in this city.

And why are you able to do that now? One, we're much more vocal.