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The Army puts its software permission slip on a conveyor belt

Project Gatekeeper lets companies run their code through the US Army's security checks in minutes rather than waiting months for approval. Frontier AI models are to be added next, though the Army has not said whose.

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Before a piece of software can run on a US Army network it needs an authority to operate, a security sign-off that can take longer than writing the software did. Breaking Defense reported that the wait has stalled some projects for as long as nine months. On Friday 23 October the Army switched on Project Gatekeeper, an attempt to turn that wait into something closer to an automated test. Success, said Gabe Chiulli, the acting Army chief information officer, looks like a company that “within minutes, can log in, commit their code, get the green check mark”.

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