Oh, DAWG: Defense Autonomous Warfare Group
From $225 million in fiscal year 2026 to $54.6 BILLION in fiscal 2027: a 24,300 percent increase! The “agentic AI infrastructure that enables battle management and kill chain execution at machine speed” is being developed at scale with drone systems from planes, to ships, to land vehicles. Hegseth’s AI push is part of a broader “maximum lethality” doctrine that frames the Pentagon’s sole mission as killing enemies.