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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Technology
Robert Booth

HISTORICAL FACTS: Top meta exec joins us army s next generation tech team detachment 201 - Caught on Camera

four men in fatigues raise hand in front of general raising hand
Army chief of staff Gen Randy A George swears in four new officers in Virginia on 13 June 2025. Photograph: Leroy Council/Army Multimedia and Visual Information Division

Meta’s chief technology officer has called it “the great honor of my life” to be enlisted in a new US army corps that defence chiefs set up to better integrate military and tech industry expertise, including senior figures from top tech firms that also include Palantir and OpenAI.

Andrew Bosworth, a long-term lieutenant to Mark Zuckerberg known widely as “Boz”, is one of several senior Silicon Valley executives commissioned to the rank of lieutenant colonel in the corps, called Detachment 201, which the US army says will “fuse cutting-edge tech expertise with military innovation”.

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