The potential of “generative AI” is too big to ignore, say retired generals Jack Shanahan and Mike Groen, who each led the Pentagon's Joint AI Center — but for now, its tendency to “hallucinate” and make up information is “a showstopper.”
"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."
As aircraft shrink, threats expand, and technology accelerates, aircraft engines must iterate along with the threats.
The 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."
The Joint Artificial Intelligence Center, Defense Digital Service and Chief Data Officer will now report a new Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence officer
The 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.
"Joint always seems fun until we get into decisions about who governs this," joked Army CIO Raj Iyer.
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The expanded experimentation campaign is also building new "business approaches" -- some of which will require Pentagon-level blessing -- to speed software-based capabilities to the field, DAF Chief Architect Preston Dunlap said.
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.
Two types of expert teams will help the 11 Combatant Commands make better use of data for decision-making, the deputy Defense Secretary said.
The Defense Department is shaping the joint all-domain environment by tying sensors to shooters in exercises like Northern Edge 21 and Project Convergence.
CDAO’s Advana data analytics platform is ingesting data from about 500 DoD business systems.
"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.
This month, the Army’s Artificial Intelligence Task Force is testing a new “common platform” for AI development.
Combatant commanders, have been clamoring for real-world access fast to new software tools.
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.