Agentic AI Is Transforming Defense, But Only Secure IT Infrastructure Will Maximize It

This contributed article warns that frontier and agentic AI introduce new risks to defense and intelligence networks, emphasizing the need for secure infrastructure, strict access controls, data governance, and cross-domain protections; it references a reported, unverified claim of an unauthorized access to Anthropic's Claude Mythos as a cautionary example and argues security must be built in from the start to enable AI-driven mission advantage.