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The Pentagon’s cyber-warfighting arm is launching a task force to speed up the adoption of cutting-edge artificial intelligence tools with powerful hacking capabilities, according to three people with knowledge of the effort. The initiative from U.S. Cyber Command — which has not been previously reported — underscores the Pentagon’s concerns about the sudden emergence of private sector-built AI models that can unearth security flaws in digital systems faster than the world’s best hackers. The task force was announced to staff two weeks ago by Gen. Joshua Rudd, the dual-hat leader of the National Security Agency and Cyber Command, according to an internal email described to POLITICO by two of the people with knowledge of the effort. These people, like others in this report, were granted anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about the sensitive effort. According to the email, the task force will span Cyber Command and the NSA, and will study how the Pentagon can safely deploy leading AI models in all aspects of its missions, the two people said. This includes assessing how AI models built by Silicon Valley tech giants can be used on “high-side” systems bearing some of the intelligence community’s most sensitive secrets. Spokespeople for Cyber Command, the NSA and the Pentagon did not respond to a request for comment. The creation of this task force comes a month after AI giant Anthropic announced that its newest model, Claude Mythos, was so adept at finding and exploiting cyber vulnerabilities that it would be shared only with a small group of trusted cyber defenders. Anthropic warned at the time that the fallout across economies, public safety and national security could be “severe” if the tool were to fall into the wrong hands. Other leading AI firms, including OpenAI, have since announced they have models with similarly advanced hacking skills and launched their own such initiatives to limit access. Anthropic officials have projected that equivalent models will be widely available in six to 24 months, potentially allowing low-skilled hackers to sow widespread digital disruption. Concern over the proliferation of advanced AI models has sparked a frantic effort by the White House to cobble together an executive order that would have frontier AI labs such as Anthropic, OpenAI and Google submit their models for federal testing before public release. It marks a major shift for the Trump administration, which previously touted a hands-off approach to AI regulation. The task force is not directly connected to the forthcoming EO, although both Cyber Command and NSA are expected to play a central role in any new cybersecurity-related efforts. Through its recently established AI Security Center, the NSA already works with the Commerce Department to study the cyber capabilities of new frontier AI models — work that could be expanded and codified in the new EO. “The broader government is leaning on NSA tech expertise to say, ‘how do we do this safely?’” said the first of the two people. POLITICO previously reported that any potential federal vetting regime would ensure the U.S. spy community can understand the capabilities of these new models before foreign adversaries like Russia and China get access to them. The NSA is responsible for intercepting foreign communications and securing the U.S. government’s, while Cyber Command is charged with fending off digital attacks on Defense Department systems and supporting military operations. In his email, Rudd indicated the task force would draw expertise from the NSA’s AI Security Center, and identified a commander from Cyber Command to lead it, said the two people. Both declined to name the commander for security reasons. It is not clear how large the task force is or how long it could be in operation. The Cyber National Mission Force, Cyber Command’s operational wing, was organized into six joint task forces as of 2024, and historically has supported Cyber Command’s work on election security, ransomware attacks and other cyber threats. A former senior national security official, granted anonymity for fear of retribution, said standing up the task force indicates Rudd felt both Cyber Command and NSA need to move more quickly to deploy fast-advancing AI tools across their networks. This person added that assigning the lead role to a commander at Cyber Command suggested that the combatant command “is more in charge, with NSA in support.” Most of the technical horsepower for the task force, nonetheless, is likely to come from NSA, the person added. The sprawling signals intelligence agency boasts the top scientific and computer talent in the U.S. government, while Cyber Command has for years faced talent management issues. Earlier this month, the Pentagon announced it had signed deals with seven tech companies, including OpenAI and Google, to start using their AI models on classified networks. Anthropic is locked in a legal battle with the Pentagon, complicating the wider rollout of Mythos across the federal government. The Defense Department in March took the unprecedented step of designating Anthropic a supply chain risk, after the firm sought to restrict the use of its tools in autonomous warfare and mass surveillance operations. An Anthropic official previously told POLITICO the company is open to allowing the U.S. government to use Mythos in offensive cyber operations. That is something the Pentagon is likely to explore — and it could create pressure within the Defense Department to lift the supply chain risk designation on Anthropic. Lt. Gen. Charles Moore, former deputy commander of Cyber Command, told POLITICO he was “aware” of Cyber Command’s plans to stand up the AI task force, and said he viewed it “not only as a good idea but a necessity.” “AI tools are rapidly becoming essential for detecting threats, prioritizing vulnerabilities, accelerating decision making and conducting both defensive and offensive cyber operations faster than our adversaries,” Moore said. “The Task Force can help integrate AI across operations, training, intelligence and cyber defense while ensuring the United States maintains analytic superiority over our adversaries.” Working with the private sector to boost the nation’s offensive cyber capabilities is core to the Trump administration’s new cybersecurity strategy, published in March. In it, the White House called for federal agencies to adopt “AI-powered cybersecurity solutions” to protect government networks. It also said the Trump administration would “unleash the private sector” to help “scale our national capabilities” both on cyber offense and defense.

The White House’s highly anticipated artificial intelligence and cybersecurity executive order will designate a coalition of national security and civilian agencies to ramp up scrutiny of cutting-edge AI models, five people familiar with the initiative told POLITICO. Industry officials began receiving details on the directive from the White House on Tuesday night, said four of the people familiar with discussions about the executive order. It could come as early as Thursday, three people knowledgeable about the planning said. The people were granted anonymity to share details of ongoing, highly confidential discussions. One key question is whether the order will require a federal review of advanced AI models before they can be released, an idea the Trump administration had distanced itself from earlier this month after initially floating the proposal. The latest draft would ask developers of the systems to submit certain models to a voluntary review by a phalanx of federal agencies as far as 90 days before they’re made public, people familiar with it said. The expected executive action represents the administration’s latest step to tighten scrutiny over developers of advanced AI systems and address the risk of catastrophic harm while maintaining a broadly pro-innovation approach to the technology. The move comes amid a policy clash between Anthropic and the Pentagon over the company’s efforts to limit certain military uses of its technology, as well as the subsequent release of Anthropic’s powerful Mythos model to a select group of companies. Weeks of conflicting signals from the administration about the evolving policy had left some people following the policy perplexed about where the White House was heading. “Everybody’s involved,” one person familiar with the matter said of the order. “That’s why it’s been on the table and off the table and on the table and off.” The draft executive order is expected to contain at least two sections. The first focuses on cybersecurity and the second on “covered frontier models,” three of the people said. The first segment gives the Pentagon 30 days to secure its networks, including key telecommunications and information systems. The administration would have 30 days to mandate wider AI use across government systems and critical infrastructure organizations, such as community banks, rural hospitals and utilities, according to three of the people. The directive also tasks the Treasury Department with leading voluntary work with AI industry officials to form a clearinghouse within 30 days, according to five of the people familiar with details of the order. The effort will establish a voluntary partnership with AI-makers and critical infrastructure owners and operators to find and patch vulnerabilities, the people said. Other federal agencies including the Office of the National Cyber Director, the National Security Agency and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency will support the effort, according to the people. The Office of Personnel Management will be tasked with increasing hiring at the U.S. Tech Force, a program announced by OPM Director Scott Kupor late last year to attract top AI talent to various federal agencies, according to three of the people familiar with the order. The second section is expected to give a cohort of federal agencies and offices — including Treasury, CISA and the National Institute of Standards and Technology — 60 days to establish a classified benchmarking process to determine what constitutes a “covered frontier model” under the executive order. White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, National Cyber Director Sean Cairncross and Michael Kratsios — who leads the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy — would also be involved in the benchmarking process. The NSA would ultimately be tasked with making final determinations in consultation with other agencies. The executive order will ask AI developers participating in the voluntary framework to do three things: engage with the government before releasing models covered by the order, give the government access to those models 90 days before public release, and share access to select critical infrastructure ahead of launch. Some details of the draft executive order, including the 90-day timeline for voluntary review, were previously reported by Axios. Spokespeople from ONCD, NIST, Treasury and the NSA did not immediately respond to requests for comment. A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security, which houses CISA, deferred to the White House, which did not immediately respond to a request for comment.The directive comes as the rollout of highly advanced, cyber-focused models such as Mythos has rattled governments and key sectors worldwide. Shortly after Anthropic unveiled Mythos to a limited audience of tech companies and security researchers last month, the White House began meeting with the tech and cyber industry to discuss potential details on the directive. But the drafting process has revealed fractures within the Trump administration over the best path to secure the frontier models. Maggie Miller contributed to this report.

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