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Kathleen Martin
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Establishing strong data environments and strategies will be key to the adoption of artificial intelligence in the military, according to Lt. Gen. Michael Groen, the director of the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center at the Defense Department.
Speaking in a webinar Wednesday on Federal News Network, Groen painted a picture of AI within DOD, emphasizing the need to cultivate an infrastructure that can handle a dynamic data environment.
Groen described acquisition of AI technologies as a “generational transformation” that would take time, beginning with shifting DOD from a hardware-centric organization to a “world class software organization.
“Getting our data strategies together is a really important component,” he said. A major part of this will be changing the data ecosystem that DOD employs, specifically in regard to installing a common data environment to facilitate AI usage throughout the department.
Common data standards will help facilitate cross-departmental data collection and sharing. This in turn will help different DOD departments make operational decisions, including in combat.
“If 10 of 10 organizations can fire on the target you’ve identified, how do you decide which one actually should do that so that the other nine can save their ammo?” Groen said.
Groen confirmed that this work has yet to be done, and hinges on strong data pipelines.
“As we build and grow and now start to get to a cohesive enterprise, a professional enterprise that’s predictable and trackable and has metrics, then we’re really going to be somewhere,” he said.
DOD’s implementation of more advanced software can help curate and organize the influx of data coming into the department, creating a dynamic data environment that can take the input data and make recommendations and insights with sophisticated algorithms.
Continue reading: https://www.nextgov.com/emerging-tech/2021/11/defense-ai-efforts-hinge-strong-data-environments/186635/
Speaking in a webinar Wednesday on Federal News Network, Groen painted a picture of AI within DOD, emphasizing the need to cultivate an infrastructure that can handle a dynamic data environment.
Groen described acquisition of AI technologies as a “generational transformation” that would take time, beginning with shifting DOD from a hardware-centric organization to a “world class software organization.
“Getting our data strategies together is a really important component,” he said. A major part of this will be changing the data ecosystem that DOD employs, specifically in regard to installing a common data environment to facilitate AI usage throughout the department.
Common data standards will help facilitate cross-departmental data collection and sharing. This in turn will help different DOD departments make operational decisions, including in combat.
“If 10 of 10 organizations can fire on the target you’ve identified, how do you decide which one actually should do that so that the other nine can save their ammo?” Groen said.
Groen confirmed that this work has yet to be done, and hinges on strong data pipelines.
“As we build and grow and now start to get to a cohesive enterprise, a professional enterprise that’s predictable and trackable and has metrics, then we’re really going to be somewhere,” he said.
DOD’s implementation of more advanced software can help curate and organize the influx of data coming into the department, creating a dynamic data environment that can take the input data and make recommendations and insights with sophisticated algorithms.
Continue reading: https://www.nextgov.com/emerging-tech/2021/11/defense-ai-efforts-hinge-strong-data-environments/186635/
