Pentagon aims to ‘own the technical baseline’ for AI tech, R&D official says

Published on April 17, 2023

The United States Department of Defense (DoD) will be sending out invitations imminently for a unique conference on ‘trusted AI and autonomy’ within the military. The central question asked of over 100 officers and officials and participants from academia and industry is: ‘Can the Defense Department rely on AI across a host of future missions?’

The Pentagon’s deputy CTO, Maynard Holliday, states that the DoD seeks to ‘own the technical baseline’ of artificial intelligence applications in an allusion to the private sector’s lead in this area. Holliday even notes that the DoD will have to ‘develop our own militarily specific, DoD-specific corpus of data’ given the secrecy of leading private sector actors like OpenAI. The conference will explore AI systems beyond Large Lanugage Models, including applications in cyber and missile defense. JADC2 will be a background theme.

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