- Pentagon staff create more than 100,000 AI agents using low-code tools
- Autonomous agents now handle about 25,000 daily Pentagon workflow sessions.
- Routine administrative tasks increasingly automated on unclassified DoD networks
Pentagon staff are rapidly adopting vibration encryption to create autonomous AI agents at a rate that now exceeds 20,000 new tools each week on unclassified Department of Defense networks.
More than 103,000 semi-autonomous agents have been created in less than five weeks using a version of Google Gemini Agent Designer available through the GenAI.mil platform.
Usage is increasing just as quickly: Those agents collectively run about 180,000 sessions each week, which equates to about 25,000 daily usages systemwide.
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Low-code or no-code systems
Each session represents a single use of an agent by a user, meaning that widely adopted tools may be activated thousands of times, while more specialized ones are run only occasionally.
Many of the most commonly used agents handle repetitive staff tasks, such as writing after-action reports, gathering formal staff estimates, analyzing images, and reviewing financial or strategic documents.
Staff are building their own tools directly on the network, creating agents that automate routine digital work without requiring traditional programming knowledge.
“It’s a very exciting time,” said Robert Malpass, the Pentagon’s deputy director for digital and artificial intelligence, in his speech at the INSA Spring Symposium.
“[Now] Anyone in the Department can start developing and working with advanced AI in their own context. [customizing] the specific way in which they need that information to be processed, displayed and integrated into an operational workflow,” he added.
Officials say the system is authorized to operate at Impact Level 5, allowing agents to operate on unclassified networks while remaining within defined security and oversight boundaries.
Some observers remain wary of how quickly automated tools are spreading, pointing to incidents outside the Pentagon in which poorly controlled agents took down systems, disrupted services or acted without clear human approval.
Defense leaders argue that speed is becoming inevitable as technology cycles continue to compress and development timelines shorten.
“Cycles are getting shorter… as things go faster, as AI itself allows the speed of technology to increase,” said Andrew Mapes, the Pentagon’s acting principal deputy director for Digital and AI, speaking at the INSA event.
“It’s up to us… to make sure it doesn’t take five to 10 years to introduce something new to the military. We simply can’t afford to take such a deliberate approach,” he concluded.
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