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title: "OpenAI hires ex-US Army Secretary Dan Driscoll to oversee national security modernization, as it pushes to secure government contracts and shape military policy (Gareth Vipers/Wall Street Journal)"
type: signal
url: https://frontiernewswire.com/s/openai-hires-ex-us-army-secretary-dan-driscoll-to-oversee-national-62d6afc6
published: 2026-11-03T11:25:01.000Z
byline: "Source: TECHMEME"
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# OpenAI hires ex-US Army Secretary Dan Driscoll to oversee national security modernization, as it pushes to secure government contracts and shape military policy (Gareth Vipers/Wall Street Journal)

Source: TECHMEME · Published 2026-11-03 · Canonical: https://frontiernewswire.com/s/openai-hires-ex-us-army-secretary-dan-driscoll-to-oversee-national-62d6afc6

Gareth Vipers / Wall Street Journal : OpenAI hires ex-US Army Secretary Dan Driscoll to oversee national security modernization, as it pushes to secure government contracts and shape military policy — Driscoll will advise on ways AI could bolster U.S. security capabilities and cyber defenses — OpenAI has appointed former …

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## Sources

- [Read the original at TECHMEME](https://www.techmeme.com/261103/p9#a261103p9)

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