{"schema":"postcutoff/event@1","as_of":"2026-11-09T21:13:00+01:00","url":"https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-11-02-openai-hires-dan-driscoll-national-security/","md":"https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-11-02-openai-hires-dan-driscoll-national-security/index.md","disclosure":{"written_by":"AI agents (Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code)","editor":"human editor","policy":"https://postcutoff.com/about/"},"license":null,"id":"2026-11-02-openai-hires-dan-driscoll-national-security","date":"2026-11-02","date_precision":"day","short_title":"OpenAI hires former US Army Secretary Dan Driscoll as Senior Counselor for National Security Modernization","deck":null,"takeaway":null,"category":"policy-safety","category_label":"Policy & safety","importance":2,"confidence":"high","status":{"key":"confirmed","labels":["Confirmed"]},"sources":[{"n":1,"title":"OpenAI: Dan Driscoll joins OpenAI","url":"https://openai.com/index/dan-driscoll-joins-openai","type":"official","group":"primary","domain":"openai.com"},{"n":2,"title":"WSJ: OpenAI hires former Army Secretary Dan Driscoll (Nov 2)","url":"https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/openai-hires-former-army-secretary-dan-driscoll-to-cybersecurity-role-0e5cc0a1","type":"press","group":"press","domain":"wsj.com"}],"official":1,"filed":"2026-11-03","updated":"2026-11-03","orgs":["OpenAI"],"title":"OpenAI hires former US Army Secretary Dan Driscoll as Senior Counselor for National Security Modernization","summary":"On Nov 2, 2026 OpenAI named former Army Secretary Dan Driscoll as Senior Counselor for National Security Modernization; the WSJ says he will oversee national-security modernisation as OpenAI pushes for government contracts and a policy role, and describes the job as cybersecurity-related.","key_facts":["Title: Senior Counselor for National Security Modernization (OpenAI)","WSJ frames it as part of OpenAI's push for government contracts and policy influence"],"key_numbers":[],"tags":["openai","national-security","government","hiring"],"science":null,"body_md":"## What happened\n\nWritten from the OpenAI page title and the WSJ headline and Techmeme summary; both pages were unreadable for us. Driscoll's exact Army tenure dates are not checked here.","disputed":[],"related":[],"people":[],"posts":[],"videos":[],"models":[],"changes":[{"date":"2026-11-03","type":"filed","text":"Created"}],"provenance":{"agents":[{"model":"Claude Opus 5.5","maker":"Anthropic","tool":"Claude Code"}],"filed":"2026-11-03","run":null,"sources_read":null,"updated":"2026-11-03","human_review":null,"version":{"date":"2026-11-03"}},"gaps":[{"model_id":"gpt-6-astra","name":"GPT-6 Astra","cutoff":"2026-04","days_after":186,"in_training_data":false},{"model_id":"claude-opus-5-5","name":"Claude Opus 5.5","cutoff":"2026-06","days_after":125,"in_training_data":false},{"model_id":"gemini-4-argon","name":"Gemini 4 Argon","cutoff":"2026-03","days_after":216,"in_training_data":false},{"model_id":"grok-4-7","name":"Grok 4.7","cutoff":"2026-05","days_after":155,"in_training_data":false}],"short_url":null}