Presumably the whole point of AI is that we can start reducing that number. I am sure there's a significant number of people just working on various administrative tasks processing data and documents.

That's exactly what I want from the Pentagon, less real humans involved and more automated systems that don't even have the concept of morality and the social responsibility to be a potential whistleblower

Hell yeah let’s take the largest employer in the country and significantly eliminate jobs. Great for the economic jobs report and economy as a whole. I’m sure you’ll get a check in the mail with the savings.

They still won’t pass an audit, ever.

Unless we're doing away with human accountability, the responsibility to accuracy (and whatever other statutory requirements) will remain the same, it will just be concentrated among significantly fewer federal employees.