AI Algorithms Could Rapidly Deploy to the Battlefield Under New Initiative

The Pentagon's Joint Artificial Intelligence Center recently started building a joint operating system and integration layer that combatant commands and other military components could eventually use to rapidly make and field artificial intelligence algorithms. This work is one key piece of the center's new Artificial Intelligence and Data Accelerator, or AIDA, JAIC Director Lt. Gen. Michael Groen confirmed this week during the NDIA 2022 Expeditionary Warfare Conference. "AIDA brings us, in small teams, out to the combatant commanders--now, for those of you who have been in combatant commands, or you're familiar with that environment--combat commanders have all of the challenges, all the problems and only some capability, right? And so what we're trying to do from an information advantage perspective is bring them the advantages of good data and good artificial intelligence-generating insights," he explained. Launched last year by Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks, AIDA marks a broad initiative to boost data-based decision-making across the military's 11 combatant commands.