The other new commission officers include Kevin Weil, head of Openi’s product; Bob McGrow, a former head of the Opeeni research now recommend the Mirati Mirati Compagnia Laboratory of Pensiere Machine; and Shyam Sankar, the CTO of Palantir. These middle -aged technological leaders have sworn in their poles wearing camouflage fatigue, as if they had not just wandered from a base of the Army in Kandahar, to join a body that takes its name from a state code HTTP. (Colonel David Butler, councilor for communications from the head of the army staff, told me that their clothing uniforms were not yet ready.) The detachment 201, wrote the army in a press release, is part of a military transformation initiative that “aims to make the strength more lean, smarter and more lethal”.
Don’t blame Donald Trump for this. The program has been in progress for over a year, the result of Brynt ParmeterThe first management of the Pentagon’s talents. Parmeter, a former combat soldier who led the veteran support to Walmart before joining the Department of Defense in 2023, had reflected how to put expert technologists on service to update an insufficiently expert militia expert in technology when he met Sankar during a conference at the beginning of last year. The idea, he says, was to create “a situation similar to Oppenheimer” in which senior managers could serve immediately, maintaining their current works. Both men collaborated on a plan to bring people such as, well, Sankar, who was a vocal cheerleader of the recent embrace of the military of the valley, proclaiming that the United States are in a “State of not declared emergency“This requires a military rehaul guided by technology. When the Wall Street Journal he wrote about The next program last October, Sankar promised to be “the first in line”. In a sign that is no longer taboo in the valley to face the fact that its creations go hand in hand with an increase in mortal force in the army, the program has been traced quickly and is now in operation. “Ten years ago this would probably have canceled me,” Weil told me. “It is a very better state of the world in which people look at this and go, ‘oh, wow, this is important. Freedom is not free.'”
The four new officers are fully members of the army reserve. Unlike other reservists, however, they will not be required to undergo basic training, although they will undergo less fitness and shooting training after induction. They will also have the flexibility of spending some of the approximately 120 annual hours to work remotely, an advantage not offered to other reserve. The army also says that these men will not be sent to battle, therefore life do not risk in potential war theaters in Iran, Greenland or in the center of Los Angeles, California. Their mission is to use their undeniable competence at school their colleagues and superiors in the army on how to use cutting -edge technologies for efficiency e mortal force.
It could be assumed that the army would conduct a large study on the specific talents requested for this pilot program and has attracted those people from an open call for the best candidates. This did not happen. Sankar has helped to recruit the other three future officials, all males, who in the intention or coincidence seem to satisfy the Anti-dei folded of today’s military, and everyone has accepted. According to Butler, “Lieutenant Colonel Sankar said” I want to wear uniform. And I have three other guys willing to go with me. “Weil confirms that he joined a request from Sankar. (Parmeter told me that since this is a pilot program with an unknown result, a closed process was appropriate.)
Clearly, the four new officers really want to serve their country. Weil, whom I have known for years, told me that when Sankar explained the program: “I was just like,” Yes, I want to help – that it seems incredible. “” But during a wave of widespread discomfort for Tech Elite’s privileges – you saw those disgusting billionaires in that show Mountain?: Special provisions for wealthy digital results seem deaf.
My big question is if these men could have provided the same assistance from the private sector. Parmeter and Butler quoted both precedents of the cases in which the managers were commissioned directly, also a higher railway executive in 1917, the Head of a gas and electricity company in 1944and the President of the General Motors Company In 1942. But those were full -time roles during world wars. Parmeter also reminded me that many reservists currently at the service are already in the technological sector, including, said some generals of Google (!). Presumably none of them, however, has started their military career as high officials and presumably do not receive a special dispensation to perform part of their service from home. Another program, the Digital Defense ServiceIt offers technological workers the opportunity to give experience to the Pentagon full -time for a maximum of two years. In addition, Parmeter has admitted that the military already have a program of trusted consultants, in which civilians could work in part or full time on the projects. “Obviously it is still ongoing, and it is something useful,” he says. “But in this case, we wanted to go further.”
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