Beyond Drones and Autonomous Weapons: Are We Winning the AI War? | WP Intelligence Briefing

The Pentagon is spending $13 billion on AI this year alone. Autonomous systems are running combat missions without a single soldier present. The United States struck over 1,000 targets in Iran in a single day powered by advanced AI targeting. But the AI transformation in national security goes far deeper than the weapons making headlines. It is reshaping logistics and supply chains, intelligence pipelines, workforce management, and the contractor ecosystem that keeps military operations running. The age of AI warfare has arrived — and the question is whether America is winning it across all the dimensions that matter. WPI reporter Kendrick Frankel brings together four executives at the center of America's AI transformation — Keith Krach, CEO of Freedom 250; John Larson, president and Chief AI Officer of Babel Street; Roxanne Kaufman, president of the International Stability Operations Association (ISOA); and Graham Gilmer, senior vice president in Booz Allen Hamilton's Defense Technology Group — to find out where AI integration is actually delivering, where it's falling short, and what the gap between the two means for American national security.