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.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.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.
By Jaspreet Gill“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.”
By Jaspreet Gill“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.
By Jaspreet GillThe 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.”
By Jaspreet GillThe Joint Artificial Intelligence Center, Defense Digital Service and Chief Data Officer will now report a new Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence officer
By Andrew EversdenThe 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.
By Aaron Mehta“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).
By Theresa HitchensALBUQUERQUE: 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…
By Kelsey AthertonThe Pentagon’s new Chief Data Officer says real-world surveillance missions must be redesigned to capture high-quality data to train machine-learning algorithms.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.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.
By Paul McLeary
“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.”
By David Spirk