The U.S. Military Risks Letting Contractors Define How It Sees the Battlefield

The U.S. military risks ceding control of the battlefield to private contractors by using command platforms whose core definitions are proprietary intellectual property. This means crucial concepts like "threat" and "escalation" are defined not by military doctrine, but by software engineers, potentially leading to poorly informed decisions in a crisis. Without owning and governing these foundational "ontologies," the military loses a core competency and faces urgent risks as artificial intelligence begins to operate on these vendor-controlled frameworks.