The U.S. Army convened 14 senior cybersecurity executives from leading technology companies at the Pentagon on April 27 for an artificial intelligence tabletop exercise.
The exercise, AI TTX 2.0, was designed to accelerate adoption of agentic AI for cyber defense and centered on a hypothetical scenario. The scenario assumes a future Indo-Pacific crisis that begins when an adversary uses AI to launch continuous, adapting cyberattacks against Army networks faster than human defenders could respond.
Participants were tasked with identifying scalable, existing AI-driven capabilities that would give Army cyber defenders a decisive advantage. They were asked to develop agentic AI tools that improve cyber defense and overcome vulnerabilities created by heterogeneous networks, legacy systems and uneven modernization.
“We are not here to develop new requirements from scratch,” Brandon Pugh, principal cyber advisor to the secretary of the Army, said. “We are here to identify scalable, adaptable and existing AI-driven capabilities that can give our cyber defenders a decisive advantage today.”
Secretary of the Army Dan Driscoll hosted the inaugural AI TTX event in September, convening approximately 15 CEOs to establish a model armory delivering AI capabilities to the tactical edge, AI-driven supply chain management, and agentic tools to automate the planning, programming, budgeting and execution process.