The Department of War has launched a sweeping Artificial Intelligence Acceleration Strategy aimed at rapidly expanding the use of advanced AI across the U.S. military and cementing the country’s position as a global leader in AI-enabled defense capabilities.

Mandated by President Trump, the strategy is designed to speed experimentation, cut through bureaucratic barriers, and integrate frontier AI technologies across all mission areas. The Department said the plan adopts a “wartime” approach to delivery, focusing on three core areas: warfighting, intelligence, and enterprise operations, with the goal of improving battlefield decision-making, accelerating intelligence-to-action cycles, and modernizing internal workflows for more than three million personnel.

“We will unleash experimentation, eliminate bureaucratic barriers, focus our investments and demonstrate the execution approach needed to ensure we lead in military AI,” said Secretary of War Pete Hegseth. “We will become an ‘AI-first’ warfighting force across all domains.”

Central to the strategy are seven Pace-Setting Projects, each assigned a single accountable leader and aggressive timelines. In warfighting, initiatives include Swarm Forge, which pairs elite military units with technology innovators to test AI-enabled combat concepts; Agent Network, which advances AI agents for battle management and decision support; and Ender’s Foundry, focused on AI-driven simulations to stay ahead of potential adversaries.

On the intelligence front, Open Arsenal aims to compress the timeline from technical intelligence to deployable capabilities, while Project Grant seeks to shift deterrence from static postures to more dynamic, data-driven approaches. Enterprise-focused efforts include GenAI.mil, which will provide Department-wide access to frontier generative AI models such as Google’s Gemini and xAI’s Grok at approved classification levels, and Enterprise Agents, intended to streamline and automate internal processes.

The strategy also calls for significant investment in AI compute infrastructure and expanded access to data viewed as critical to maintaining an operational advantage. To support implementation, the Department plans to recruit top AI talent through initiatives such as the Office of Personnel Management’s “Tech Force” and to empower small teams to tackle complex integration challenges.