“No vendor is going to label your data for you,” CDAO Craig Martell said. “So it’s incumbent upon us as a centralized supporter of AI in the department to give you the tools, abilities, and consulting, to be able to build that labeled data so that you can hand it to industry, and they can build a model that works for you.”
By Jaspreet GillWhat’s new in naval radars and missiles: Defending the Pacific
Defending U.S. naval forces in the Pacific, Red Sea, and elsewhere require a range of systems from close-in weapons to anti-ballistic missiles.
“So I don’t think we’re mature enough in the learning that we’re doing with our multiple exercises and [we have] yet to define the problem we want to solve,” said Vice Adm. Jeffrey Trussler, deputy chief of naval operations for information warfare.
By Jaspreet Gill
The new office will be led by Dave Tremper, director of electronic warfare in the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment.
By Jaspreet Gill
“There are some other capabilities that I can’t talk about here, but we will look at how to build out the same type of approach Maven used for these non-GEOINT type use cases,” Deputy CDAO Margaret Palmieri said.
By Jaspreet Gill
“But I think it’s going to be the led by the new Chief [Digital] and AI Officer, Craig Martell, who comes to us from industry and has a very good technical background,” Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said. “Hopefully he’ll be able to help pull it together. But there’s a definite need to do that.”
By Jaspreet Gill
“So any business that we want to do on behalf of the department, that’s our place to duke it out, to collaborate, to really get the feedback from all the different stakeholders we need in the organization before we bring that to the deputy,” Margaret Palmieri, deputy CDAO, said Tuesday.
By Jaspreet Gill
One key element is ensuring a transformation from “viewing AI as an enigmatic and incomprehensible technology to understanding the capabilities and limitations of this widely adopted and accepted technology.”
By Jaspreet Gill
How to ensure readiness of next-generation defense technology: Solving the issue of massive heat.
High-performance systems generate tremendous amounts of heat that can compromise missions and make high-tech systems less effective in tactical environments. But there is a solution to this modern-age challenge.
“So when they come to government, we have to give them the right skills, we have to give them the right experience so that when they’re done Silicon Valley or industry in general is willing to grab them, right?” CDAO Craig Martell said.
By Jaspreet Gill
“We’re not going to change bureaucracy as a whole,” CDAO Craig Martell said. “We need to find the right gaps, the right places where we can leverage value and then that value is going to drive a virtuous cycle of change.”
By Jaspreet Gill
The Joint Artificial Intelligence Center, Defense Digital Service and ADVANA teams will be officially subsumed into the new CDAO office at the start of the month.
By Jaspreet Gill
The CDAO has established a governance working group looking through “40 different foundational documents” that reference pre-existing organizations before the CDAO or other roles and responsibilities the new office will take over, the deputy in charge said Wednesday.
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“What I worry about… for this individual is whether they are going to get enough support from the government and from the center of DoD to actually make changes that are needed,” said Google’s Andrew Moore.
By Jaspreet Gill
The Pentagon wants at least $70 million for its Rapid Defense Experimentation Reserve and $76.79 million for its Artificial Intelligence and Data Accelerator, budget documents show.
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“The new state of conflict is a yet-to-be-fully-conceived blend of strategic weapons, tactical operations, and dominance in information warfare,” writes former DoD Chief Data Officer David Spirk. “And a new warfighting paradigm is needed to be competitive.”
By David Spirk