“It’s getting that data talent into the combatant command, knowing that it’s going to be there so that they can begin understanding what they have and what’s within the art of the possible there,” Dave Spirk, the Pentagon’s chief data officer, said.
By Andrew EversdenThe Joint Artificial Intelligence Center, Defense Digital Service and Chief Data Officer will now report a new Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence officer
By Andrew Eversden“If data is the new oil, then we want to mine that data, refine that data,” to make it more useful across the service, Col. Peter Chiou says.
By Brad D. WilliamsThe IC has major policy questions to decide “before we just go off and build Skynet,” says NGA’s AI guru Joe Victor.
By Theresa HitchensBefore you can 3D print a part, you need a detailed 3D model of it. So Army Material Command is figuring out how to scan tens of thousands of parts. One method: pull apart an entire helicopter.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.“Should we bias training data towards the weird stuff?,” asks Patrick Biltgen of Perspecta. “If there’s a war, we’re almost certain to see weird things we’ve never seen before.”
By Kelsey Atherton“We ultimately want this Team Ignite to become the way we do business — it’s increased collaboration with the right partners in the right events,” says Maj. Gen. John George, head of Army Combat Capabilities and Development Command (CCDC).
By Theresa HitchensThe Army’s building a detailed VR map of the planet and the service’s CIO sees JEDI as the logical place to host such a massive database.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.