Deputy Secretary of Defense Dr. Kathleen H. Hicks excursions the Nogales Border Patrol Station Mobile Surveillance Capabilities Site, Nogales, Arizona, June 11, 2021. (DoD picture by U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Brittany A. Chase)
WASHINGTON: A new synthetic intelligence fund tucked away within the $1.5 trillion fiscal 2022 spending bundle signed by President Joe Biden this week could support the Pentagon in its efforts to extend adoption of AI on the combatant command degree.
The $200 million Artificial Intelligence and Development Fund is supposed to enhance tactical AI at combatant instructions. However, in keeping with funds paperwork, congressional protection committees need a briefing by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on an “execution plan” earlier than the Pentagon can lay palms on any of the funding.
The new fund aligns with the Defense Department’s AI efforts, notably the AI and Data Acceleration initiative introduced final yr by Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks.
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Under the trouble, operational information and AI flyaway groups of technical consultants are being despatched to the army’s 11 COCOMs to help them higher perceive their information and create AI instruments to streamline choice-making. DoD needs to make use of the data gathered from the groups and COCOMs to “replace its community infrastructure, take away coverage boundaries and make sure the reliability and effectiveness of its international warfighting capabilities,” in keeping with a June 2021DoD memo asserting the initiative.
The effort includes the companies in addition to key Pentagon businesses just like the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center, which is growing a joint working system for COCOMs construct and discipline AI algorithms quickly. This “integration layer” would be the first of its sort for DoD, JAIC Director Lt. Gen. Michael Groen informed Breaking Defense in February.
The Navy additionally revealed its personal involvement within the effort on the WEST 2022 convention in San Diego in February. Duncan McCaskill, the Navy’s chief analytics officer, informed the viewers the service had despatched one in all its information engineers out to a shipyard to help personnel at EUCOM work via a use case for 3 months.
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As of February, DoD had accomplished its first spherical of assessments on the COCOMs.
The $1.5 trillion funding bundle additionally incorporates $50 million to enhance recruitment and growth of AI expertise, $70 million to extend DARPA’s AI, cyber and information analytics efforts, $23 million to enhancing coaching at US Cyber Command and $62 million to strengthen DoD networks from cyber threats.
https://breakingdefense.com/2022/03/a-new-200m-fund-could-help-cocoms-with-ai-adoption/
