36 Some of the most widely used technologies in society, including the internet, GPS navigation, radar, and others, were first developed by the Department of Defense for military applications. While Gen-AI is fundamentally a product of the private sector, its migration to the Department of Defense has significant, revolving, dual-use implications for the private sector. Many functional areas within the DOD that Gen-AI will directly impact have private-sector counterparts, such as human capital, supply chain and logistics teams, training and administration teams, cost center operations (IT, Finance), R&D divisions, and more, as indicated in Figure 11 below. WHAT THE PRIVATE SECTOR CAN LEARN Figure 11: Alignment Between Military and Corporate Functions Generative AI Adoption in the US Military