A day after the Defense Department announced a new deal with OpenAI, an official with the Pentagon’s Chief Digital and AI Office said announcements about additional partnerships with companies for “frontier AI” projects are on the horizon.
Democrats and Republicans in both the House and Senate are backing the Protecting AI and Cloud Competition in Defense Act of 2025.
This moves DOD closer to real-time data flow between the tactical edge and operational and strategic decision-makers, officials said.
There’s been an exodus of senior leaders and other technical employees from the Pentagon’s AI hub in recent months, sources said.
The Trump administration appointed a new Chief Digital and AI Officer at the Defense Department.
Correspondence obtained by DefenseScoop provides new information about personnel changes inside the AI hub.
The Pentagon has started a process to rehire some employees who lost their jobs.
Advana has become yet another exemplar of a DOD software development project that lost its way.
The CDAO is leveraging BigBear.ai’s Virtual Anticipation Network to advance complex information operations across the military.
The Chief Digital and AI Office’s Advana platform arms the military with decision-support analytics, visualizations and data-driven tools.
