The Air Force has publicly released its strategy for artificial intelligence, building onto the ongoing work at the Pentagon level. The strategy is meant to be an annex to the Department of Defense's AI strategy in support of its Joint AI Center. It will serve as a mechanism to align the Air Force with the larger AI efforts across the department and leverage the JAIC's progress as an AI center of excellence. The technology "is crucial to fielding tomorrow's Air Force faster and smarter, executing multi-domain operations in the high-end fight, confronting threats below the level of open conflict and partnering with our allies around the globe," write acting Secretary Matthew Donovan and Chief of Staff Gen. David Goldfein in the introduction to the dual-signed strategy. AI, they say, will "underpin our ability to compete, deter and win" across all five of the Air Force's missions: air and space superiority; global strike capability; rapid global mobility; intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance; and command control.