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Pentagon sets up AI Rapid Capabilities Cell and winds down Task Force Lima

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Source: U.S. Department of WarAlso reported by DOD News (GlobalSecurity mirror), DefenseScoop, DefenseScoop

The Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office and the Defense Innovation Unit launched the AI Rapid Capabilities Cell in December 2024 to field generative and frontier AI faster. It runs four frontier AI pilots with combatant commands, scales tools across 15 warfighting and enterprise use cases including command and control and cyber operations, and offers $40 million in SBIR funding to small firms. Task Force Lima, set up in 2023 to study generative AI, was sunset and its findings fed the cell’s use cases.

Why it matters

Generative AI work at the Pentagon moved from study to funded fielding, giving vendors a dedicated buyer and test sandboxes through major cloud providers.

When
12 Dec 2024
ID
WTA-N-2024-0155
Who
Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office, Defense Innovation Unit, Department of Defense; Radha Plumb

Summary by wheresthe.ai, from U.S. Department of War and the reporting credited above. We could not open the primary document, so it is marked Reported. Checked against the source on 9 Oct 2026.

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WTA-N-2024-0155: “Pentagon sets up AI Rapid Capabilities Cell and winds down Task Force Lima.” wheresthe.ai, 12 Dec 2024. https://wheresthe.ai/d/us-cdao-ai-rapid-capabilities-cell-2024-12/ (source: U.S. Department of War).

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