US Army Recruits Palantir's Executives to Join the Military

The Army launched a website so tech bros can sign up to serve

The Army launched a new website to recruit more tech experts after announcing a new program where four top executives from major companies like Palantir and Meta were commissioned into the Reserve. “We are looking for leaders who can drive innovation, accelerate modernization, and inspire a new generation of service — and we’re doing so through a groundbreaking initiative: Detachment 201,” the website states. In other words, they’re looking to b…

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Four technocrats who are closely affiliated with Meta, Palantir, and OpenAI were just commissioned into the U.S. Army as lieutenant colonels, which I find to be extremely odd, and seriously concerning. Here’s the story, from a report at Task...

US Army recruits Palantir's executives to join the military

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Detachment 201: The Merger of Big Tech and the U.S. Army

The United States Army has officially launched “Detachment 201,” a first-of-its-kind partnership with executives from Big Tech firms Palantir, Meta, and OpenAI. The day before Donald Trump’s 250th anniversary parade for the U.S. Army, the Army swore in four Silicon Valley executives as Army Reserve lieutenant colonels as part of their new “Detachment 201: The Army’s Executive Innovation Corps.”  The Army said the program was “designed to fuse cu…

US Army’s nerd force; Palantir, Meta, OpenAI tech bosses join Executive Innovation Corps, one sold knives in college

The US Army has launched the Executive Innovation Corps under Detachment 201 to recruit tech leaders from Palantir, Meta, and OpenAI. Shyam Sankar, Andrew Bosworth, Kevin Weil, and Bob McGrew are now Army Reserve officers, helping modernize national defense through private-sector expertise and accelerate technology adoption across military operations

POLITICO Pro: Palantir's CTO prompted the Army to create a program for elite tech executives

“Shyam [Sankar], in his overwhelming patriotism came to us, and said ‘I want to join the Army. I want to wear the cloth of the nation,'" Col. Dave Butler recounted in an interview with POLITICO.