“I call this the million monkeys at a typewriter,” CIA CTO Nand Mulchandani said. “You can’t pick the specific monkey that is going to crank out Shakespeare."
The RFP includes a guide to help startups, small businesses, and non-traditional defense contractors participate. AI ethics and security are focal points.
As threats rapidly evolve, digital engineering, manufacturing capacity and robust supply chains are critical to meeting challenges.
The Pentagon must avoid the ancient Roman tactic of “burning the bridge behind them” by immediately throwing aside older weapons systems in favor of wholesale investments in new technologies and platforms. While force modernization is necessary, the Department of Defense does not have the time, track record, or the funding to rapidly field replacements to […]
While China has invested heavily in “brute force” big data, Nand Mulchandani and aides said, US companies are far more innovative --- but will they work with the Pentagon?
Victory lies not in the weapons themselves, Nand Mulchandani says, but in AI algorithms that advise commanders on how best to wield them.
Despite past battles over Project Maven and other military uses of AI, “Google and many others” are now working with the Pentagon’s Joint Artificial Intelligence Center, its new acting director says.
Government can’t stop to update systems, so modernization has to happen without interruptions.