Don’t blow the budget on ChatGPT: Army CIO sounds alarm on big bills for GenAI
“Let’s not have a bazillion flowers blooming in this space,” said Leonel Garciga. “That gets expensive very fast, and it gets really hard to protect our data.”
Army aims for final draft of software mega-contract by Nov. 7
“We put out our second draft on Friday; the deadline for feedback is Oct. 25, so you have about a week and a half left,” software acquisition chief Jennifer Swanson told contractors at AUSA. “Please, please give us feedback.”
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How TAK gives the US military an advantage at the Edge
“Tactical operating system” for warfighters has evolved to provide more situational awareness of the battlefield.
After industry pushback, Army pledges to revise software acquisition – up to a point
"If some companies don't want to bid on a contract, it's a free country. Don't bid. Others will," Doug Bush said. "My goal is simply to get the capability for the Army, not to make everybody happy."
Army attempts to reassure industry on software acquisition
“Many of the right things were said publicly,” Warren Katz, chairman of the Alliance for Commercial Technology in Government, told Breaking Defense. “However, those sentiments do not seem to have translated into the RFI and directive documents.”
Break and counter: Army’s 500-day artificial intelligence plan to include new testing, defense
The service previously announced another initiative, dubbed #DefendAI, all of which are shaping its year-long dive into the cutting-edge tech.
Army teases pilot generative AI program to start in July
One of the hopeful uses of the new LLM is for the government to create contracts at a quicker rate.
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Data overload threatens decisionmakers as autonomy expands
Reducing cognitive overload on warfighters while improving “time to trust” for autonomous systems is a matter of design.
DefendAI: Army wants industry help with safety testing for artificial intelligence
The Army presented a conceptual security plan that involves layers of security for AI use, but wants help ironing out the details.
‘Poisoned’ data could wreck AIs in wartime, warns Army software acquisition chief
“Any commercial LLM that is out there, that is learning from the internet, is poisoned today,” Jennifer Swanson said, “but our main concern [is] those algorithms that are going to be informing battlefield decisions.”
Army identifying which programs will implement new data architecture
The service is also currently developing a risk management framework for Project Linchpin, the Army’s first program of record to help build out a trusted artificial intelligence/machine learning pipeline, according to Jen Swanson, deputy assistant secretary of the Army for data, engineering and software.
As US Army transforms, it’s gleaning lessons about high- and low-tech fighting from Ukraine, Israel
Young Bang, principal deputy assistant secretary of the Army for acquisition, logistics and technology, said the effectiveness of high- and low-tech fighting was "pushing into our guiding principles."
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‘Tremendous amount of power’: Army digital engineering strategy slated for FY24
Through digital engineering, the Army wants to move from manual processes to an all-digital environment, so much so that deputy assistant secretary of the Army for data, engineering and software Jennifer Swanson told Breaking Defense she hopes Army projects would be "born digital" within a few years.
‘Like Netflix’: After slow start, Army aims to ‘drastically’ accelerate software updates
Today, just nine of the Army’s 540 acquisition programs use the streamlined Software Pathway, but senior officials told Breaking Defense in an exclusive interview they aim to "exponentially" increase that number by the end of next year.
‘Version one’ of Army’s data architecture plan slated for September
A new “innovation exchange” is being stood up at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md., for industry vendors to test solutions for the Army’s yet-to-be-released Unified Data Reference Architecture.