--- title: Pentagon Campaign Seeks Engineers for Defense AI and... description: The Pentagon has launched War Force, a recruiting campaign for software engineers to support defense AI and software modernization projects, run in partnership... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/pentagon-campaign-seeks-engineers-for-defense-ai-and-software-modernization-dhzeihchx twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Pentagon Campaign Seeks Engineers for Defense AI and Software Modernization | daily.dev og:description: The Pentagon has launched War Force, a recruiting campaign for software engineers to support defense AI and software modernization projects, run in partnership... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/pentagon-campaign-seeks-engineers-for-defense-ai-and-software-modernization-dhzeihchx og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/DhzEIhCHX.png og:image:alt: Pentagon Campaign Seeks Engineers for Defense AI and Software Modernization og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Pentagon Campaign Seeks Engineers for Defense AI and Software Modernization **[DevOps.com](https://daily.dev/sources/devops)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary The Pentagon has launched War Force, a recruiting campaign for software engineers to support defense AI and software modernization projects, run in partnership with the U.S. Office of Personnel Management. Engineers will work on frontier AI, machine learning, automation, CI/CD pipeline modernization, automated testing, and infrastructure as code. The Forward Deployed Engineer role is a term appointment (up to 4 years), classified at GS-14 with salaries ranging from $125,776 to $197,200. The campaign comes amid an 11% decline in federal staffing across major agencies, raising questions about long-term sustainment of the software and practices after engineers depart. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [The rise of the forward-deployed engineer \(FDE\)](https://daily.dev/posts/the-rise-of-the-forward-deployed-engineer-fde--uyf5ybauk) · LeadDev · 0 upvotes · 1 comments - [Forward deployed engineer is AI’s hottest job as OpenAI and Google race to hire. Here’s how to become one.](https://daily.dev/posts/forward-deployed-engineer-is-ai-s-hottest-job-as-openai-and-google-race-to-hire-here-s-how-to-becom-qz6e7dgip) · The New Stack · 3 upvotes · 0 comments - [AWS puts $1bn into forward-deployed AI engineers](https://daily.dev/posts/aws-puts-1bn-into-forward-deployed-ai-engineers-u8bdygi5f) · The Next Web · 4 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#ai](https://daily.dev/tags/ai), [#cicd](https://daily.dev/tags/cicd) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/pentagon-campaign-seeks-engineers-for-defense-ai-and-software-modernization-dhzeihchx) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Pentagon Campaign Seeks Engineers for Defense AI and Software Modernization","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/pentagon-campaign-seeks-engineers-for-defense-ai-and-software-modernization-dhzeihchx","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/pentagon-campaign-seeks-engineers-for-defense-ai-and-software-modernization-dhzeihchx"},"datePublished":"2026-07-08T13:53:49.445Z","dateModified":"2026-07-08T13:54:12.810Z","description":"The Pentagon has launched War Force, a recruiting campaign for software engineers to support defense AI and software modernization projects, run in partnership...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/f3f397201a4976bd1861bca881cbd457?_a=AQAEuop","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/f3f397201a4976bd1861bca881cbd457?_a=AQAEuop","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"DevOps.com","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"DevOps.com","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/db8f2265cff0416c878c6e7e92bb8715","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/devops"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/pentagon-campaign-seeks-engineers-for-defense-ai-and-software-modernization-dhzeihchx","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"ai,cicd","timeRequired":"PT3M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"DevOps.com","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/devops"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Pentagon Campaign Seeks Engineers for Defense AI and Software Modernization"}]} ```