

“Let’s not have a bazillion flowers blooming in this space,” said Leonel Garciga. “That gets expensive very fast, and it gets really hard to protect our data.”
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
By fact checking the AI through a new verification process for Large Language Models, it’s possible to reduce hallucinations from 5-10 percent to as low as 0.1 percent.
By Breaking Defense
Taking over for Task Force Lima, the new AI Rapid Capabilities Cell (AIRCC, or “arc”) will test cutting-edge Large Language Models and other GenAI tools for everything from war planning to cybersecurity.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
“Don’t do [AI] just to say that you have it,” said DISA CTO Steve Wallace. “We’ve seen a lot of vendors who claim to have it, and when you peel back the onion, there’s not a whole lot of depth.”
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
A user can’t just say “write me a Request For Proposals” and get the AI to blurt out a draft, explained Ask Sage founder Nic Chaillan. Instead, the software will guide them through the process step by step – and use multiple AI models to check each others’ work.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
The defense tech startup disclosed a new “Barracuda” weapon, and put on a demo for reporters where drone wingmen were controlled using voice commands.
By Michael Marrow
With Large Language Models, “you can make more of everything — misinformation, disinformation — but it doesn’t mean it’ll be very good,” said Clint Watts, general manager of the Microsoft Threat Analysis Center.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
“We’re sitting on two big sets of data,” said NGA’s Mark Munsell, referring to an unequalled archive of satellite imagery and all the intelligence analysts’ reports on that imagery – and they’re cross-referenced so an AI can correlate them easily.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
While generative AI can churn out dangerous disinformation, the revised AI strategy warns, it has so much potential upside that “It is vital for NATO to use these technologies … as soon as possible.”
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
The Defense Department wants to explore Large Language Models for everything from paperwork to war plans – without being misled by hallucinations or having sensitive information sucked up by commercial LLMs hungry for training data.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
“We’ve hit our milestones and you’ll start seeing as we look to the next few months a lot more activity from the Maven office in terms of contracting,” Rachel Martin said.
By Jaspreet Gill
While DoD is seeing adoption of AI across the department, Steven Wallace added that DISA is trying to better understand the ethical use of the technology.
By Jaspreet Gill
“We just needed a much smaller dataset, half hour of training time, and all of a sudden, GPT was now a New York Times writer,” said Andrew Lohn, senior research fellow at CSET.
By Brad D. Williams
In this op-ed, Joshua Haecker explains how AI and LLMs can help the Intelligence Community use unclassified information, an often untapped source.
By Joshua Haecker