The Pentagon aims to get AI tools to its entire workforce next year, the department's chief technical officer said one month after being given control of its main AI office.

“We want to have an AI capability on every desktop — 3 million desktops — in six or nine months,” Emil Michael, defense undersecretary for research and engineering, said at a Politico event on Tuesday. “We want to have it focus on applications for corporate use cases like efficiency, like you would use in your own company…for intelligence and for warfighting.”

Four weeks ago, the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office was demoted from reporting to Deputy Defense Secretary Stephen Feinberg to Michael, a subordinate.

Michael said CDAO will become a research body like the Defense Advanced Research Projec

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