DIB member Charles Phillips said the DIB should recombine AT&L because the DoD “need[s] integrated designs, we need integrated manufacturing capacity around the world. It’s hard to do that in separate organizations."
Ryan Swann, a member of the Defense Innovation Board and chief data officer at Vanguard, argues in this op-ed that the Pentagon should make bureaucratic changes, but also "create environments in which DoD civilians and service members can express their innovative talents."
Knowing when to build on commercial systems and when to develop something new can be the difference between parity and information dominance.
“OSC was fundamentally established to give the Department of Defense a new tool in our current competition because today the United States… is in a global competition to be a world leader in emerging and critical technologies,” Jason Rathje, OSC director, said, noting they'll be taking applications for investment later this year.
“One of the things that was already useful ... was an understanding that in order to get private capital deployed, you need clarity and some understanding about what the DoD will look like as a customer," said board member and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman.
Bloomberg, the former New York City mayor and presidential candidate, will lead the panel of tech and business experts tasked with advising Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin.
Writing regulations will take months. Convincing industry and academia to trust the military to handle AI ethically could take years.
Why edge and endpoint security can’t be an afterthought.
“We met with a vendor on the West Coast -- I can’t say who -- and saw how they had implemented it end-to-end in their own infrastructure. They looked at (cybersecurity) holistically from the user identity, to the identity of the endpoint, to the application. I was very impressed with what they had done," says DISA's Steve Wallace.
The military figured out how to use nuclear power safely, the advisory panel said, and it can do the same with artificial intelligence.
Acquisition chief Ellen Lord wants a radically new way of buying software, but appropriators have to approve.
“He said you’ve got tremendous people, you prototype pretty effectively, and you’re absolutely terrible — he had some more colorful words than that — for machine learning," Gen. Thomas said. "It gave me a spark ... and turned me into a zealot."
Balancing security and access to data are critical to providing users with trustworthy, reliable data for real-time decisions.
Besides digging out ineptitude with a sharp spade, the DIB guide also offers constructive suggestions, even including 16 specific software programs to use for specific purposes, from version control to bug reports.
WASHINGTON: China is besting the United States in key military technologies like hypersonic missiles and electronic warfare, Gen. Paul Selva, vice-chairman of the Joint Chiefs said today. We can still catch up, he predicted. What about Artificial Intelligence? That’s too close to call, said former deputy Defense Secretary Bob Work, so we’d better get a move on. Both men […]
CRYSTAL CITY: Ash Carter created the Defense Innovation Advisory Board so the military could tap the expertise of a panel of civilian luminaries, from Google’s Eric Schmidt to pop astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson. But the board is less interested in being oracular than in embracing and adopting enthusiastic young innovators. To paraphrase several participants at […]
President Donald Trump’s six latest nominees to lead the Pentagon provide some hope for those who have long been frustrated with the Defense Department’s roadblocks to procuring innovative technologies. From the Boeing executive who spent time on the company’s successful commercial side who’s been picked for Deputy Defense Secretary, to the House Armed Services aide who crafted the […]