The Pentagon Joint Staff wants its own chief data and AI office
The Joint Staff recently stood up an AI task force to examine use cases for artificial intelligence and consider future long-term organizational structures.
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4k aerial view of self driving autopilot cars driving on a highway with technology tracking them. (Getty Images/FlashMovie) AI Why Centcom wants ‘self-service’ computer vision for warfighters
DefenseScoop was exclusively briefed on the command’s new Desert Sentry commercial solutions opening.
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Chairman Ken Calvert (R-CA) (L) and full committee Chairman Tom Cole (R-OK) (R) appear at a House Appropriations Committee hearing on Capitol Hill on April 17, 2024 in Washington, DC. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Charles Q. Brown, Jr., and Department of Defense Comptroller Michael McCord are on Capitol Hill to present the 2025 budget request for the Defense Department. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images) Emerging Tech House appropriators propose more than $1.3B for DIU, other tech acceleration initiatives
A fiscal 2025 defense appropriations bill was released by the House Appropriations Committee.
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Combined Air Operations Center (CAOC) at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar. The CAOC is comprised of a joint and coalition team that executes day-to-day combined air and space operations and provides rapid reaction, positive control, coordination, and de-confliction of weapon systems. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Joshua Strang) AI Combatant commands poised to scale targeting capabilities via Palantir’s Maven system
Work under the new contract will initially cover five U.S. combatant commands: Central Command, European Command, Indo-Pacific Command, Northern Command/NORAD, and Transportation Command.
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River entrance of the U.S. Department of Defense. (Getty Images) AI Pentagon’s new CDAO unveils fresh hires on her leadership team
The Pentagon’s Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office hired a slate of four new leaders.
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Duncan McCaskill
Defense Leadership In April, after serving nearly two years as the Navy’s Chief Data and AI Officer, and four years before that as the service’s chief analytics officer, Duncan McCaskill took a new role with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency as a technical director for mission engineering. McCaskill said in a note announcing his […]
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Capt. Brian Erickson
Defense Leadership Capt. Brian Erickson was the U.S. Coast Guard’s first Chief Data and Artificial Intelligence Officer (CDAO). He left the role on May 17 to serve as Deputy Director of the DHS Presidential Transition Office until he’s set to retire from government service in March 2025. An engineer by background, he has extensive experience […]
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A Bradley Fighting Vehicle loads onto the ARC Integrity Jan. 25, 2023, at the Transportation Core Dock in North Charleston, South Carolina. More than 60 Bradleys were shipped by U.S. Transportation Command as part of the U.S. military aid package to Ukraine. USTRANSCOM is a combatant command focused on projecting and sustaining military power at a time and place of the nation’s choosing, advancing American interests around the globe. (U.S. Transportation Command photo by Oz Suguitan) Tech How Transcom transformed to ‘rapidly adapt as things change around the world’
U.S. Transportation Command is harnessing data and delivering digital tools to support and enhance worldwide military transits and operations.
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Jinyoung Englund speaks at AIScoop’s AITalks on April 19, 2024. (Photo by Scoop News Group). AI Chief strategy officer spotlights CDAO’s near-term aims during period of transition
Jinyoung Englund, a senior official in the algorithmic warfare directorate, briefed DefenseScoop about some of her team’s priorities.
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3D illustration of Neptune, Roman god of the sea (Getty Images) IT Navy ramping up Neptune cloud efforts
The Neptune Cloud Management Office was formally established in 2023 and has two components: one for the Navy and another for the Marine Corps.