I have yet to jump on the "LLM" bandwagon and think ML should be used sparingly but this is one thing I believe is a cause for applause.

Humans like money and get bought off on such endeavors but ML doen't. Humans get bored and lazy but ML doesn't. If this isn't a good application of it, I don't know what is.

A pattern I have seen in corporate bureaucracy is the heavy cost of laziness by middle management that results in waste, misaligned incentives and ridiculous red-tape. All because mid-level bureaucrats can't be bothered to make granular decisions or enact case-by-case policies because they fear all that work will distract from all the lunches, meetings and forced team outings. I wouldn't be surprised if DoD has a similar bureaucrat problem. ML based software is the perfect bureaucrat. However, still having a bribable human in the loop is always nice.