DOD using Army tool to fulfill directive under AI executive order

Published on May 24, 2024



Panoptic Junction was chosen to pilot artificial intelligence capabilities for remediation of vulnerabilities in critical systems.

Atool developed by Army Cyber Command is now serving as the Department of Defense’s solution to fulfill a key directive in President Joe Biden’s watershed artificial intelligence executive order.

That October 2023 EO, among many tasks, directed the secretary of defense to develop plans for, conduct and complete an operational pilot to “identify, develop, test, evaluate and deploy AI capabilities, such as large-language models, to aid in the discovery and remediation of vulnerabilities in critical United States Government software, systems, and networks.”

 

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