The Defense Autonomous Working Group is being absorbed into a new Task Force Autonomous Warfare inside U.S. Special Operations Command, officials said at the October 14 AUSA meeting, according to Breaking Defense’s reporting.
The reported change would keep autonomy-development activity moving while the Pentagon pursues Project Agincourt and a proposed Autonomous Warfare Command, or AUTOWARCOM. Breaking Defense attributes the task-force change to Derrick Anderson, the assistant secretary responsible for special operations and low-intensity conflict. It also reports that congressional approval is still needed for the proposed command.
An official Pentagon News account published by the Army separately explains Project Agincourt’s role. It describes a short-term project intended to lay the groundwork for a functional combatant command leading joint unmanned and autonomous warfare, and identifies Owen West’s Direct Reporting Portfolio Manager for Unmanned Systems as the organization leading the project.
That official account supports the broader organizational objective. It does not independently establish the specific DAWG-to-task-force transfer reported by Breaking Defense, so that transfer remains attributed to the reporting and the official quoted there.
For robotics developers, the distinction matters: a task-force reorganization is not evidence that a particular autonomous vehicle has passed testing or entered service. Neither report supplies a technical assessment of sensors, control software, human authorization or performance under disrupted communications.
The immediate development is therefore a management change alongside a proposed wider command. The evidence supports officials’ stated plans, rather than proof that the full institutional structure or its intended capabilities are already operational.