To scale AI and bring Zero Trust security, look to the chips
Improved artificial intelligence and security is just a matter of taking advantage of chips already built into defense systems.
Brandon Pugh came over from the think-tank world about eight weeks ago to serve as the service's third ever PCA.
“If [adversaries] see that we're unable to respond, as we have in the past, then it's very likely that we will see an increase in malicious activity," one expert told Breaking Defense. "No question about it."
“When you pull an organization that was a direct report to the deputy secretary or secretary and move it somewhere else…the message to the force is loud and clear: This isn’t a priority,” said retired Lt. Gen. Jack Shanahan, who founded the predecessor to the current Chief Digital & AI Office (CDAO).
To be ready for a potential war with China, said DoN CDAO Stuart Wagner, the Department of the Navy needs to access and analyze the masses of sensor data currently languishing aboard its aircraft, warships, and other frontline platforms.
Developed by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab, the GenWar and SAGE wargaming systems take different approaches to exploiting generative AI while guarding against its tendency to make stuff up.
"As the Army continues to integrate advanced technologies ... traditional airspace management methods are being challenged by the growing scale, speed, and complexity of operations," the RFI says.
This week's episode dives into some Navy news from the Hill and a tech gauntlet thrown down by the White House.
America's AI Action Plan features 19 recommendations that involve the DoD, including the creation of a "virtual proving ground."
The Army banned early government Large Language Models because they lacked features of the new Army Enterprise LLM Workspace, Army CIO Leonel Garciga told Breaking Defense in an exclusive interview.
“The intent behind this is to provide for a deployed soldier an enhanced capability so that they can easily provide an RF [radio frequency] waveform and provide some of that reprogramming at the edge," Eric Bowes, the program officer of ARAT, told Breaking Defense.