Pentagon boasts of using AI to write reports mandated by Congress
The US Department of Defense has a lot of congressionally mandated homework to do every year involving hundreds of required reports on various national security topics. But Pentagon officials have been proudly describing a new shortcutβusing generative AI tools to write such reports for Congress.
Pentagon Chief Technology Officer Emil Michael highlighted AI-generated reports to Congress as a key example of how the Department of Defenseβstylized as the Department of War under the Trump administrationβhas adopted generative AI during an event hosted by the Hudson Institute think tank in Washington, DC, on June 12. The Pentagon has made AI tools, starting with Google Cloudβs Gemini for Government, widely available to members of all six military branches through the departmentβs bespoke GenAI.mil platform since December 2025.
βI have to report to Congress every year on this thing,β Michael said. βLet me load all the papers onto it and have it draft me a congressional report that would otherwise take 200 hours of staffing time and do it in five hours.β


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