Led by the Pentagon’s Chief Digital and AI Office, the task force “will assess, synchronize, and employ generative AI capabilities across the DoD, ensuring the Department remains at the forefront of cutting-edge technologies while safeguarding national security,” according to a DoD announcement.
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Through the reinvigorated GIDEs, the Pentagon is “for the first time” taking a “speed and quality approach,” Pentagon Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office chief Greg Little said.
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“What we’ve really been trying to wrestle with inside of CDAO is not to over centralize because the department is so diverse and distributed and so large, that we want innovation to happen at the edge,” said Margaret Palmieri, deputy chief digital and AI officer.
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GAO says the Pentagon’s chief digital and AI office (CDAO) should develop a department-wide AI acquisition strategy and that the military services should also develop their own guidance to help navigate the AI acquisition process.
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“If we’re going to have unity and purpose, it needs to be in a single place,” Rep. Rob Wittman said.
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“Here’s my biggest fear about ChatGPT,” Craig Martell said. “It has been trained to express itself in a fluent manner. It speaks fluently and authoritatively. So you believe it even when it’s wrong… And that means it is a perfect tool for disinformation…”
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Andrew Moore founded startup Lovelace AI and had testified before Congress about DoD’s lack of urgency when it came to actually implementing AI and machine learning in the field.
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“Everyone recognizes our shortages and our problem,” Mike Gorak said. “So we’re going to try new things and we’re going to try innovative things, which, not all will work. and that’s okay.”
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“This strategy utilizes four human capital pillars – Identification, Recruitment, Development and Retention – to identify and group cyber workforce challenges,” according to slides.
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Global Information Dominance Experiments V through VIII seek to jolt ponderous Pentagon processes into the age of AI, big data, and the cloud, hoping to inform a future meta-network called Joint All Domain Command and Control.
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“I think one of… the things we sought to accomplish in the course of the update is clarifying the language to ensure a common understanding both inside and outside the Pentagon of what the directive says,” said Michael Horowitz, director of the Pentagon’s Emerging Capabilities Policy Office.
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