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The Pentagon's AI Implementers

Jan 5, 2024
Margaret Palmieri, the Deputy Chief Digital Artificial Intelligence Officer at the DOD, dives into the transformative role of AI in military settings. She discusses the tension between innovation and diffusion of AI technologies. Challenges like data accessibility and the need for organizational change are front and center. Palmieri emphasizes the importance of integrating AI into workflows while maintaining human oversight and accountability. Despite bureaucratic hurdles, she expresses optimism about tech advancements in defense strategies, highlighting insights from recent conflicts like Ukraine.
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Quick takeaways

  • The DoD aims to decentralize innovation and create accessibility to data, AI algorithms, and tools across the organization.
  • The DoD emphasizes the importance of data quality for accurate insights and works on improving data accessibility and interoperability.

Deep dives

DoD's Digital Artificial Intelligence Transformation

The Deputy Chief Digital Artificial Intelligence Officer at the DoD discusses the need for a new organization focused on digital transformation. The DoD has been on a digital journey for almost a decade, starting with innovation cells that tackled challenges in warfighting and technology. The CDAO was formed to scale digitization, innovation, and agility. The department aims to decentralize innovation across the organization and make data, AI algorithms, and analytic tools accessible to those solving problems. The DoD has released a new data analytics and AI adoption strategy to drive organizational change and create agility. The hierarchy of needs for digital transformation includes foundational enablers, data quality, analytics, and AI.

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