The service’s new policy empowers “mission area data officers” for warfighting, intelligence, business operations, and enterprise IT, as well as institutionalizing what have been “ad hoc” data duties across the service, David Markowitz told Breaking Defense.
"The new state of conflict is a yet-to-be-fully-conceived blend of strategic weapons, tactical operations, and dominance in information warfare," writes former DoD Chief Data Officer David Spirk. "And a new warfighting paradigm is needed to be competitive."
The network transport architecture for NGC2 could be a hybrid approach that combines high assurance communications with 5G, WiFi, and multi-orbit satellites.
The Joint Artificial Intelligence Center, Defense Digital Service and ADVANA teams will be officially subsumed into the new CDAO office at the start of the month.
"I'm convinced we're going to be able to do some great things," Craig Martel told Breaking Defense in an exclusive interview. "But they're going to be hard things. It's going to be a challenge."
“Her deep knowledge and relationships within DoD will ensure the CDAO navigates and cuts through the bureaucracy to get things done,” said John Sherman, acting chief digital and artificial intelligence officer and DoD chief information officer.
The office of the chief digital and artificial intelligence will be responsible for scaling up data, analytics and AI to enable faster and better decision-making "from campaigning to conflict."
Reducing cognitive overload on warfighters while improving “time to trust” for autonomous systems is a matter of design.
The Joint Artificial Intelligence Center, Defense Digital Service and Chief Data Officer will now report a new Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence officer
The Defense Digital Service (DDS), the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC) and the office of the Chief Data Officer (CDO) would all report up to a new individual, tentatively named the Chief Data & AI Officer.
"We even had representation at our [first] data summit from NATO," said Army Brig. Gen. Rob Parker, JG deputy director and head of the JADC2 Joint Cross-Functional Team (CFT).
ALBUQUERQUE: The new Department of Defense Data Strategy is designed to flatten the obstacles — technical and cultural — that prevent easy data sharing across the military services to enable the Pentagon’s push towards Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2). Getting the right data, into the right hands, in a timely and useful manner, without any […]
Knowing when to build on commercial systems and when to develop something new can be the difference between parity and information dominance.
The Pentagon’s new Chief Data Officer says real-world surveillance missions must be redesigned to capture high-quality data to train machine-learning algorithms.
A slew of new civilian officials are settling in at the Pentagon, adding muscle to promises of change in how the military develops and buys technology, and how fast it can put that gear in the field.