The Joint Warfighting Concept “is an excellent concept, but the concept is just that — it’s a concept. That concept is going to drive experimentation, it’s going to drive future capabilities and future doctrine, but right now it’s just the concept and we’re still learning with it,” VCJCS Gen. John Hyten says.
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Two types of expert teams will help the 11 Combatant Commands make better use of data for decision-making, the deputy Defense Secretary said.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
The Defense Department is shaping the joint all-domain environment by tying sensors to shooters in exercises like Northern Edge 21 and Project Convergence.
By Barry Rosenberg
“We’re only as fast as our slowest process,” said JAIC’s Lane, who is applying AI, machine learning, automation, and other tech to boost DoD’s efficiency.
By Brad D. Williams
This month, the Army’s Artificial Intelligence Task Force is testing a new “common platform” for AI development.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
Combatant commanders, have been clamoring for real-world access fast to new software tools.
By Theresa Hitchens
The US has a narrow edge in its talent pool, its hardware and its algorithms, but China is ahead in accumulating data, deploying applications, and integrating different functions.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.All-Domain Operations Shape The Joint Battlespace For Decision Dominance
The Defense Department is shaping the joint all-domain environment by tying sensors to shooters in exercises like Northern Edge 21 and Project Convergence.
The RFP includes a guide to help startups, small businesses, and non-traditional defense contractors participate. AI ethics and security are focal points.
By Brad D. Williams
“We need to move away from these single point demos to true scalability,” Jean-Charles Ledé, AFRL’s advisor on autonomy tech, says.
By Theresa Hitchens
JAIC’s plan to rapidly grow capabilities, which it will do via a series of monthly updates, reflects the current AI competition with adversaries, including China which has said it plans to dominate AI by 2030. “To a Marine, this is dangerous close,” Lt. Gen. Michael Groen says.
By Brad D. Williams
Approximately half of NSCAI’s final recommendations focus on defense. “We’re already working on two-thirds of them,” Groen said, adding that partnerships with the U.S. domestic private sector and academia are important in pursuing JAIC’s defense-focused AI goals.
By Brad D. Williams
Deploying data scientists alongside special ops troops lets them solve intelligence-sharing problems “in minutes or hours,” said Special Operations Command’s first-ever CTO.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
The command is leading a virtual exercise, called the Global Information Dominance Exercise (GIDE) 2, March 18-23 to test three “decision aids” using AI to speed commanders’ ability to act.
By Theresa Hitchens “This is not a panacea,” the deputy director of the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center says. “You can’t just sprinkle AI on all these legacy systems and expect them to work and talk together….That’s not how it works.”
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
