Meta boss praises new US army division enlisting tech execs as lieutenant colonels

Photo: Army chief of staff Gen Randy A George swears in four new officers in Virginia on June 13, 2025. Photo credit: Leroy Council / Army Multimedia and Visual Information Division. Public Domain. Article by Robert Booth. The Guardian – June 25, 2025.

Meta’s chief technology officer has called it “the great honor of my life” to be enlisted in a new US army corps that defense chiefs set up to better integrate military and tech industry expertise, including senior figures from top tech firms that also include Palantir and OpenAI. Andrew Bosworth, a long-term lieutenant to Mark Zuckerberg known widely as “Boz”, is one of several senior Silicon Valley executives commissioned to the rank of lieutenant colonel in the corps, called Detachment 201, which the US army says will “fuse cutting-edge tech expertise with military innovation”. […]

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