AI "needs to span every battlefield system that we have, from our maneuver systems for our fire control systems to our sustainment systems to our soldier systems to our human resource systems and our enterprise systems." Gen. Matthew Easley, Director of the Army AI Task Force (AAITF), made these remarks at the 2019 AUSA Warriors Corner, which runs from October 14-16. "We need to be able to create an AI infrastructure for the Army" -- Brig. The US Army is looking to integrate AI into every facet of its operations. "We see AI as an enabling technology for all Army modernization priorities -- from future vertical lift to long range precision fires to soldier lethality," said Easley.

The U.S. Army is developing data surveillance and analysis technology in Pittsburgh, though an offshoot of the controversial Department of Defense initiative Project Maven within Carnegie Mellon University's Army AI Task Force. CMU's involvement comes after the project made headlines last year when Google employees signed a petition en masse to cease work on the initiative. The project, the second undertaken by the Task Force, is seeking to develop an algorithm to analyze drone, overhead, and ground data to identify targets and objects of interest. The military does so much reconnaissance that human analysts simply can't keep up. Their image and sensor networks generate tons of data daily, which the Department of Defense says necessitates the use of artificial intelligence to do effective analysis.