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American business leaders have been inducted into the US Army under a new Detachment 201: Executive Innovation Corps.
Palantir chief technology officer Shyam Sankar, Meta chief technology officer Andrew Bosworth, OpenAI chief product officer Kevin Weil, and Bob McGrew, adviser at Thinking Machines Lab and former chief research officer for OpenAI, were inducted as four new US Army Reserve lieutenant colonels under the program in June this year.
The new Executive Innovation Corps program is designed to bridge the innovation gap between commercial and military technology.
“Det. 201 is an effort to recruit senior tech executives to serve part-time in the Army Reserve as senior advisors,” according to the Army.
“In this role, they will work on targeted projects to help guide rapid and scalable tech solutions to complex problems.
“By bringing private-sector know-how into uniform, Det. 201 is supercharging efforts like the Army Transformation Initiative, which aims to make the force leaner, smarter, and more lethal.”
