• The Pentagon used Claude via Maven to generate 1,000 targets in 24 hours during Operation Epic Fury, reaching 13,000 strikes over 38 days.

  • Frontier models hallucinate on up to 85 percent of short factual queries, yet policy mandates deployment within 30 days of release.

  • Five capacity gaps, workforce, compute, data, evaluation, and authorization, leave the department unable to independently verify whether AI targeting tools work as claimed.