The Department of Defense’s Joint Artificial Intelligence Center must train its AI tools in a “diverse” enough way to become deployable globally and viable anywhere, the center’s top official said. Nand Mulchandani, JAIC’s acting director, said the agency’s existing training data set is not representative of factors such as global terrain, global information or human faces, DOD […]
Current unmanned and artificial intelligence technologies are not trustworthy enough to be more widely implemented in the Marine Corps' arsenal, according to the service's top official. Marine Corps Commandant David Berger said he plans to use AI someday to create better threat identification systems, self-updating logistics systems and unmanned supply vehicles and medevac, USNI News […]
Kathleen Hicks, President Joe Biden’s pick for deputy secretary of defense, told lawmakers during her confirmation hearing that she intends to further the Department of Defense’s adoption of artificial intelligence to support warfighting needs. Upon her confirmation, Hicks, a 2021 Wash100 winner, said she would rely on the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center to facilitate the […]
The Navy has followed in the Air Force's footsteps as it adopted its own DevSecOps platform called Black Pearl to allow coders to bake built-in security into new software. Black Pearl shares similarities with the Air Force’s Platform One in that it features some of the same coding tools and practices for the development of […]
Deloitte has launched a new artificial intelligence platform designed to accelerate the government's adoption of AI across the public sector. CortexAI for Government combines government and industry solutions, models, tools and architectures built for AI quality, audit and ethics, Deloitte said Thursday. “AI is more than technology. Through CortexAI for Government, we will help agency […]
The Army Corps of Engineers Jacksonville District is working with the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration and the Army’s Engineer Research and Development Center to use an artificial intelligence tool capable of assisting with the monitoring of water quality and oceanographic conditions in preparation for a deepening project at Port Everglades in Florida. The collaborative effort […]
Three of Palo Alto Networks' platforms designed to help agencies reinforce network, cloud and endpoint security are now part of the company's Government Cloud Services, which has achieved Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program Moderate authorization. According to Dana Barnes, senior vice president of public sector at Palo Alto Networks, the Prisma Cloud, Cortex XDR […]
U.S. Space Command plans to adopt more artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies to maintain its digital superiority over its adversaries, according to its top official. Spacecom Commander James Dickinson said he will soon release a strategic plan highlighting digital superiority as a foundation, National Defense Magazine reported Tuesday. “We must innovate to achieve and […]
Joe Victor, deputy lead for artificial intelligence, automation and augmentation at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, said technology and policy hurdles are hindering the use of AI for target recognition. Speaking at the Genius Machines forum sponsored by Defense One, Victor noted that while the NGA has already developed AI algorithms that could be deployed for […]
Artificial intelligence has many moving parts that need to work together for the technology to benefit warfighters, according to a top research official from the Department of Defense. William Scherlis, director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's Information Innovation Office, said conversations about AI are often solely focused on machine learning, Defense .gov reported. […]
