News Summary

• AI use across the department is up by roughly 1,420,000 users, a 1,775% increase over the past calendar year.
• The panel was part of Day 2 of the Special Operations Forces Week 2026 convention, a three-day annual event held in Tampa, Florida.
• "Special operations forces are really the sort of heart and soul of what we do, and they do some incredible stuff," said Emil Michael, undersecretary of war for research and engineering and War Department chief technology officer.