DIA centralizes AI efforts with Digital Modernization Accelerator
“I want you to move like somebody’s on your heels, and they’re about ready to eat you,” the Defense Intelligence Agency’s chief AI officer, Maj. Gen. Robert Kinney, tells his team.
“I want you to move like somebody’s on your heels, and they’re about ready to eat you,” the Defense Intelligence Agency’s chief AI officer, Maj. Gen. Robert Kinney, tells his team.
Kruse had been in the position since February 2024 after an appointment by then-President Joe Biden, meaning his exit comes well short of the usual approximately three-year posting.
“Not only would this cloud be a top secret cloud, but it would be classification agnostic as well, because the data is all tagged, because all of my users all have the correct digital identities, I can store all the data in the cloud," said Brig. Gen. Eric Vandenbeg of the Canadian Department of National Defence.
One slide, for example, shows parts of intercepted munitions that share "key identifiable features with Iranian antiship cruise missiles," the Defense Intelligence Agency said.
Greg Ryckman, DIA's deputy director for Global Integration, said open source info used to be the "salt" sprinkled on top of completed intelligence products, but now it's the secret intelligence that's become the salt on the "main course" that is open source intel.
“We are in a very interesting era and we want to make sure that we are complying with the [Department of Defense] ethical AI principles,” Ramesh Menon, DIA chief technology officer, told reporters today.
Breaking Defense Europe will launch May 4 with Tim Martin and Elisabeth Gosselin-Malo as co-editors.
"We are living in more chaotic times than ever with crises around the world and we realize that everything is at stake to include our national security. As we think about the future, we are, as technologists, on the frontline to respond," DIA CIO Doug Cossa said.
Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Kruse has warned industry about the significant espionage threat from China and others: "The target is you."
MARS is replacing the 1980s-era database, called the Military Intelligence Integrated Database, used by DIA for its primary mission of providing foundational military intelligence to warfighters and national security decision-makers.
The Defense Intelligence Agency previously took the lead on reporting Russia's use of Iranian weapon systems in Ukraine.
Government can’t stop to update systems, so modernization has to happen without interruptions.
Ground vehicles accounted for the lion's share of the equipment left behind.
The subcommittee is "encouraging the use of commercially available data" to help fill ISR gaps identified by military commanders, but there's also has concerns about overlap in acquisition of commercial ISR.
"I hear more about IT revolution than evolution these days, but I think IT is more evolution," DIA CIO Doug Cossa said.
NRO, NGA, CIA, DIA and NSA are the "standing members" of the new council, says its chairman David Gauthier of NGA.