Military Launches Website to Find Big Tech’s ‘Army Strong’ Employees

If you work in Big Tech and you are looking to go out, the army is waiting for open arms. Someone has to build technology to drop these bombs after all. Task and goal reports that the army’s talented arm launched Detachment 201An initiative aimed at attracting technology professionals into the ranks of soldiers – the last in a growth pipeline between Silicon Valley and the American armed forces.

The 2017 detachment effort launched the call for “high -level and unique technology professionals” who want to help “strengthen army defenses against rapid evolution threats”. The program specifically targets “senior technologists in the private sector” which can jump into the army ecosystem and inform it of modern technology. The program claims that its objective is to “fill the commercial-military fracture”. One might wonder if maybe these things are divided for a reason! Difficult to say with certainty.

This program is in preparation a little now, and taking into account its first public importance when the director of technologies of Meta in chief Andrew Bosworth announcement that he accepted a direct commission as a lieutenant-colonel in the reserve of the American army within the framework of the effort. Bosworth declared This detachment 201 (named after HTTP code This indicates that a request has led to the creation of a resource) “will serve technical experts advising the efforts to modernize the army”.

Bosworth was seal By Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar, Openai’s product manager, Kevin Weil, and former Openai research director, Bob McGrew, as Lieutenant-Colonels of the effort. The launch of the 2017 detachment recruitment page marks the start of public awareness, which aims at other employees-priests of technological companies such as those whose new higher officers come. According to the task and goalThe recruitment page has received around 150 curriculum vitae so far. Gizmodo contacted the army for an update on his efforts but did not receive an answer.

It is not as if the link between Silicon Valley and West Point is particularly new. Big Tech has raised money from military contracts since decadesAnd the links have not been tightened in recent years. Between 2018 and 2022, as much as $ 53 billion I went to Amazon, Google and Microsoft alone – and venture capital clearly see the dollars when they look at these offers, because More than $ 100 billion would have been paid in defense startups Between 2021 and 2023. The second Trump administration abandoned pretexts and enabled technological companies like Andundil de Palmer Luckey land enormous defense contracts After paying money into Trump’s campaign chests. We are probably not far from an avalanche of tests “why I leave San Francisco for the Pentagon” of technological leaders.