Pentagon Funds the Autonomous Kill Chain // AIDRAN

The FY27 $54.6 billion DAWG request exceeds the entire Marine Corps budget allocation and represents nearly 15 percent of the total reconciliation package. The Bluesky observation that SOCOM's 2024 budget "literally calls out 'autonomous lethal systems'" was not a leak or a revelation — it was a reading of publicly available appropriations language that the policy conversation had not caught up to. The funding structure establishes that the United States has treated autonomous warfighting as a decided question. Advocates for human-in-the-loop requirements are now negotiating with a procurement pipeline,…

The Pentagon Has Already Funded the Autonomous Kill Chain

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