Pentagon boasts of using AI to write reports mandated by Congress

The US Department of Defense is using generative artificial intelligence to draft reports required by Congress, with officials describing the tools as a way to sharply reduce the staffing hours needed to produce mandated paperwork. Pentagon Chief Technology Officer Emil Michael detailed the practice during a June 12 event at the Hudson Institute in Washington, DC [1]. Michael said the department has made AI tools broadly available to all six military branches through its GenAI.mil platform, which launched with Google Cloud’s Gemini for Government in December 2025 [1]. “Let 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,” Michael said [1]. The Defense Department faces a substantial annual reporting burden, with hundreds of congressionally mandated documents required on national security topics [1]. The push to integrate AI into federal workflows accelerated after President Donald Trump established the Department of Government Efficiency by executive order on January 20, 2025, an initiative that promoted artificial intelligence tools across agencies and supported workforce reductions [3]. Earlier indications of the Pentagon’s AI-assisted report writing emerged at the Box Federal Summit on April 23 [1]. Jacob Glassman, deputy assistant secretary of defense for science and technology foundations, told attendees he instructed a short-staffed team responsible for a congressionally mandated report to “use GenAI.mil, do the best you can” [1]. The team returned a week later and described the AI-generated document as “the best report we’ve written in the past five years,” according to DefenseScoop coverage [1]. Glassman did not name the specific report [1]. The Defense Department’s adoption of generative AI sits within a broader Trump administration push to modernize federal information technology and restructure agency operations [3]. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, confirmed in January 2025 after Vice President JD Vance cast a tie-breaking vote, has overseen the department during this period of technological change [2]. The GenAI.mil platform represents one of the most visible deployments of commercial AI tools inside a cabinet-level agency, with Google Cloud providing the initial large language model infrastructure [1][6].