‘Digital employees’ are coming to the Defense Logistics Agency
· Source: defenseone.com
In short
The Defense Logistics Agency is piloting autonomous AI agents it calls 'digital employees,' building on a robotic-process-automation program of roughly 185–190 bots that saved an estimated 300,000 hours of work in 2025. DLA CIO Adarryl Roberts said about 90–95% of those bots are unattended and that the agency is now moving toward agentic AI, requiring new governance, persona-based access, data cleanup, and workforce management strategies. Director Lt. Gen. Mark Simerly framed AI as 'the new gunpowder' for military logistics, citing contested logistics lessons from Ukraine and Iran.
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