WASHINGTON — The office of the under secretary of war for research and engineering said Emil Michael will bring “the Department of War’s success in rapidly proliferating frontier SI to the warfighter” to a Super Intelligence Force announced by President Donald Trump.
The office posted the statement on X on Oct. 4, quoting a White House post from three hours earlier. That post carried a Truth Social text in which Trump said he was “announcing the formation of the Super Intelligence Force (SIF).” No executive order creating the force was on the White House site when the two accounts posted.
Under Secretary Emil Michael will be bringing the Department of War’s success in rapidly proliferating frontier SI to the warfighter to President Trump’s SUPER INTELLIGENCE FORCE (SIF).
Trump’s text names four leaders: Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton, Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson, “Under Secretary of War for Research and Engineering, and Chief Technology Officer, Emil Michael,” and Office of Personnel Management Director Scott Kupor. It says the force will report to the president and Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, and will coordinate federal engagement with consumers, public-interest groups, religious organizations, critical-infrastructure providers, and “Super Intelligence Companies.” It cites a “Historic White House Accord on Super Intelligence.” It does not give the force a budget, a statute, or a start date.
The War Department post adds figures the presidential text does not. It says that under Michael, “America’s top frontier SI models were rapidly brought into” the department’s enterprise platform, “which has grown to more than 1.7 million unique users in under a year, including service members, civilians, and contractors.” It says Michael and the office “are moving with violent speed to remove barriers to SI adoption, achieve commercial parity with industry, increase decision dominance for the warfighter, and reduce menial tasks.” The user count and the phrase “violent speed” are the office’s.
A May 20 department story has a lower count, and it uses the old term. At a Special Operations Forces Week panel in Tampa, Michael said use was up by roughly 1.42 million users, a 1,775 percent increase over the past year. He said the department had about 80,000 users before he took the job, and about 1.5 million of more than 3 million personnel that day. He described three layers: enterprise, intelligence, and warfighting, and called the warfighting layer the most important. The Oct. 4 post says more than 1.7 million. The May story does not.
The term is already an order. On Sept. 29, Trump signed Executive Order 14434. Section 2 directs agencies, to the maximum extent permitted by law, to use “Super Intelligence” and “SI” in place of “artificial intelligence” and “AI” in official correspondence, public communications, websites, reports, and policy documents. Section 3 defines the new terms as the technologies in section 9401(3) of title 15. The order does not create a force, an office, or a task force, and it says it creates no enforceable right. A White House fact sheet the same day restates the rename.
Michael’s portfolio is older than the force. A Nov. 17, 2025, release lists six critical technology areas, the first of them “Applied Artificial Intelligence.” He said adversaries were “moving fast, but we will move faster,” and that the warfighter needed results “today.” Secretary Pete Hegseth said in that release that the six areas would keep the force “the most deadly fighting force on planet Earth.” The release does not mention a Super Intelligence Force.
The announcement is a social-media text, posted by the White House and answered by the research-and-engineering office. The Sept. 29 order changed the name. The May story is the department’s earlier user count. The force, the 1.7 million figure, and “violent speed” are in the Oct. 4 posts, not in that order.