Alpha-1, DoD’s portfolio of services, will accelerate AI adoption
The Pentagon is building out infrastructure to facilitate the implementation of AI technologies in a secure and sustainable way, and Alpha-1, a new portfolio of services, will be central to the effort.
Alpha-1 is not merely a platform but rather a set of capabilities and tools that the armed services and other DoD agencies can use to accelerate the development of AI technologies.
“Alpha-1 is the one that is starting to get momentum to enable AI and ML scaffolding,” Navy Capt. Xavier Lugo, who leads the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office’s Task Force Lima, said during the Center for Strategic and International Studies event Tuesday.
By ‘scaffolding,’ Lugo means laying out the foundational structure for the development of AI. Scaffolding includes data labeling as a service, federated model catalogs and test and evaluation capabilities, among other components.