The Pentagon prides itself on using AI to write reports mandated by Congress

It is unclear what mechanisms the Pentagon has to review the accuracy of its AI-generated reports to Congress. But such reports are a critical component of a criminal investigation aimed at holding the US military accountable for its use of taxpayer dollars — so any errors introduced by AI could derail the reporting process. This also comes at a time when the Pentagon has requested it an unprecedented $1.5 trillion budget for fiscal year 2027.

The US military has also been using AI tools to write evaluation reports for non-commissioned officers and non-commissioned officers, generate commendations, and generate advisory messages, according to the Small Wars Journal story.

The number of Defense Department personnel using commercial AI tools such as Gemini through GenAI.mil has increased significantly from 80,000 in December 2025 to 1.5 million in June 2026, the Pentagon CTO said in a speech at the Hudson Institute. The Department of Defense has approximately 3.5 million employees.

Google and others many US technology companies that signed contracts in 2025 by the US General Services Administration to make their AI tools available to all government agencies at affordable prices.

On May 1, the Department of Defense announced new contracts and “eight of the world’s leading artificial intelligence companies” to deploy more AI tools on designated networks for “legitimate use.” Those companies include Images of SpaceX, OpenAI, Google, Nvidia,Reflection AI, Microsoft, Amazon Web Servicesand Oracle.

The US government has not said how much it is paying the companies under the new contracts. But this list does not include Anthropic, which was written by the Trump Administration after the company denied the unlimited use of its Claude AI models. war of independence and managing a large number of people.