The Wall Street Journal reports that in an unprecedented collaboration between the U.S. military and the tech industry, a group of Silicon Valley executives are set to be sworn in as officers in the Army Reserve on Friday. The inaugural cohort of this new innovation corps, dubbed Detachment 201, includes Shyam Sankar, CTO of Palantir; Andrew , Silicon Valley Execs Join the Army As Officers (gizmodo.com) 43 Posted by BeauHD on Thursday June 19, 2025 @03:00AM from the fully-on-board dept. The U.S. Army Reserve has directly commissioned four top Silicon Valley executives as lieutenant colonels under a new initiative, Detachment 201, aimed at accelerating tech integration into military , Chief technology officers (CTOs) from companies, including Palantir, Meta, and OpenAI, are taking part-time roles in the U.S. Army Reserve. Silicon Valley is reporting for duty. The initial , Executives at four Silicon Valley companies will be sworn into the U.S. Army Reserve as lieutenant colonels. The recruitment of tech executives is part of an initiative called ‘Detachment 201’ to recruit private-sector experts to accelerate the use of AI in military planning., The U.S. Army is launching Detachment 201, integrating tech expertise with military innovation. Four Silicon Valley executives, including CTOs from Palantir and Meta, along with leaders from , .