The U.S. defense community is starting to understand that AI will significantly transform, if not completely reinvent, the world’s military power balance.
By James Johnson, Middlebury Institute of International Studies
Testifying before the Senate Armed Service Committee’s Personnel Subcommittee, the Navy’s chief of personnel, Vice Adm. Bob Burke, updated lawmakers on how far and fast the sea service has come in revamping the Defense Officer Personnel Management Act, the landmark 1980 legislation that’s come to be known as simply “DOPMA.”
Democratic leaders will have to navigate alongside a caucus of moderates who back strong military spending and progressive members who have decried Pentagon largess.
The House Armed Services Personnel Subcommittee has included a proposal to allow military services the ability to directly commission highly skills cyber and scientific officers up to the rank of O-6.