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- The U.S. Department of Defense will cut civilian hiring to 30 days using generative AI.
- Michael Cogar, Pentagon civilian personnel policy chief, is using the Contact-to-Contract program—piloted in 2023—to meet the deadline.
- The 30-day target, three times faster than the 2024 average of 92 days after losing over 78,000 civilian staff, drew a June 2025 Rand Corp warning that AI rollout needs data cleaning, privacy safeguards and equal-employment-law compliance.
