META, OPENAI, PALANTIR CHIEFS SWORN INTO ARMY TECH UNIT AS LIEUTENANT COLONELS

Top execs from Meta, OpenAI, and Palantir have joined the Army Reserve’s new “Executive Innovation Corps” as lieutenant colonels.

Part of Detachment 201, they’ll inject battlefield-ready tech into military operations.

The corps aims to fuse Silicon Valley expertise with defense strategy.

Sworn in: Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth, OpenAI CPO Kevin Weil, Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar, and ex-OpenAI exec Bob McGrew.

The unit supports the Army’s Transformation Initiative to overhaul outdated systems and speed adoption of commercial tech.

Source: DefenseScoop, WSJ