DoD Creating Standards For AI Programs
DoD has "so many hundreds of programs that we really couldn't do a fair evaluation of each individual activity," Mark Lewis, director of modernization in the Research and Engineering office, said today.
DoD has "so many hundreds of programs that we really couldn't do a fair evaluation of each individual activity," Mark Lewis, director of modernization in the Research and Engineering office, said today.
"If the Joint Force can just get a taste of what this will be like on the battlefield, it will be the most addictive drug that has ever been made for warfare," Will Roper said of the Advanced Battle Management System.
JADC2 is a way for the individual service C2 networks to "all have the same networking infrastructure to talk to one another," says SDA Director Derek Tournear.
"Our fully networked C3 [Command, Control, & Communications] will look completely different" from current satellites and terminals, said OSD's Doug Schroeder.
This "key new initiative," Griffin stressed, could lead to DoD being able to such breakthroughs as creating its own fuel.
Congress worried that the SCO's ability to act fast would be stymied by layers of bureaucratic approval required for any decisions. Under DARPA, it would have been bumped four reporting levels down.
Four military installations, yet to be named, will host experiments in VR training, tracking supplies in “smart warehouses,” and – most importantly – sharing scarce spectrum.
"What I want to bet on is the ability of the United States and our Western allies to out-innovate adversaries," says Mike Griffin, undersecretary of Defense for research and engineering.
"My integrity and belief in SCO's mission is more important to me than my friendship over many years with Mike (Griffin)."
"I’ve never seen a Congress more on our side than it is today," Griffin said. "In every meeting on the Hill, I am asked, 'what relief do you need? What legal remedies do you require? What can we do to help you move faster?' So if you are bound by legal impediments...I need bring those forward, because I am perfectly willing to go to Congress."
The new head of Pentagon R&D delivered a scathing critique of how the military develops and buys equipment. “I did not take this job to reach parity with adversaries," Griffin said. "I want to make them worry about catching up with us again."