“Each and every day, we sit down as a group, we figure out the guardrails we’re going to apply to these agents, [and] we ask ourselves: Is it risk that a human should be answering, or is it risk that an agent can answer?” Lt. Gen. Christopher Eubank said. “And right now, today, humans are all responsible for risk. We have not turned any agents loose to assume risk on their own behalf.”
Tanner enters the role having served as the department’s acting CIO following Jane Rathbun’s departure from the position in 2025.
“That’s where this is going,” Maj. Gen. Robert Kinney said.
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Science and Technology Joseph Jewell briefed DefenseScoop on the DOD’s new structure to enable innovation.
“I would say we definitely have our foot in the pool, but we need to jump in a little deeper,” Brig. Gen. William Ottati said.
The hackathon is intended to deliver “tangible products that are useful across the enterprise and immediately deployed or adopted for further refinement,” according to an administrative message.
The convergence of commercial satellite imagery, resilient communications, SAR space platforms, and AI-enabled analysis demonstrates a fundamental shift in military space power that the United States should work to harness.
The CDAO team aims to anchor MSS as an operational cornerstone for command and control, but some sources questioned its early impacts.
During one of the latest Air Force experiments, the X-62 VISTA conducted 27 autonomous air intercepts across eight flights.
Officials want to expand the surveillance of communications made by individuals incarcerated in the Military Correctional Complex.
