{"id":137814,"date":"2025-06-16T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=137814"},"modified":"2025-06-16T18:56:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T22:56:13","slug":"wsj-the-armys-newest-recruits-tech-execs-from-meta-openai-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=137814","title":{"rendered":"(WSJ) The Army\u2019s Newest Recruits: Tech Execs From Meta, OpenAI and More"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The nerd brigade is reporting for duty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They probably won\u2019t win any push-up contests and might not be sharpshooters. Yet for part of the year, a set of brainy Silicon Valley executives will trade their corporate-branded vests for U.S. Army Reserve uniforms because they know a heckuva lot about artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The chief technology officers from&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/market-data\/quotes\/PLTR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Palantir<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/market-data\/quotes\/META\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Meta Platforms<\/a>\u2014Shyam Sankar&nbsp;and&nbsp;Andrew \u201cBoz\u201d Bosworth, respectively\u2014will join&nbsp;Kevin Weil&nbsp;and&nbsp;Bob McGrew&nbsp;of OpenAI pedigree to make up the inaugural cohort of a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/tech\/wanted-weekend-warriors-in-tech-3b3a7513?mod=article_inline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">new Army innovation corps<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Their mission: swap C-suites for bases and bring some badly needed tech upgrades to the Army.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/tech\/army-reserve-tech-executives-meta-palantir-796f5360\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Army\u2019s Newest Recruits: Tech Execs From Meta, OpenAI and More <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zmZFh5tInf\">https:\/\/t.co\/zmZFh5tInf<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Trip (@TripKrant) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TripKrant\/status\/1933517785935515738?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 13, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The nerd brigade is reporting for duty. They probably won\u2019t win any push-up contests and might not be sharpshooters. Yet for part of the year, a set of brainy Silicon Valley executives will trade their corporate-branded vests for U.S. Army<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=137814\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[106,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-armed-forces","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=137814"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137819,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137814\/revisions\/137819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=137814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=137814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=137814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}