More Big Tech executives just became Army officers. The conflict-of-interest question is getting louder.
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Three more tech executives, including Cloudflare’s CTO, have joined the US Army’s Detachment 201 as lieutenant colonels. The programme now includes seven Silicon Valley leaders advising the Pentagon on AI and modernisation, raising conflict-of-interest concerns as their companies hold billions in defence contracts.
The US Army has commissioned three more technology executives into Detachment 201, the reserve unit that gives Silicon Valley leaders the rank of lieutenant colonel and a direct advisory line to senior military officials. Dane Knecht, chief technology officer of Cloudflare, Sam Pullara, CTO and managing director of Sutter Hill Ventures, and Serkan Piantino, a former Reddit executive and co-founder of Facebook AI Research, were sworn in on 10 June at Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall in Virginia.
They join a first cohort commissioned in June 2025 that included Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar, Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth, former OpenAI chief product officer Kevin Weil, and Thinking Machines...
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