Mr. Deasy is helping guide the Pentagon’s modernization efforts, including its push to adopt commercial, enterprise cloud capabilities. However, cloud is just a piece of the bigger, AI-laden strategy. Instead of using computers as tools, the DOD wants to view them as partners.
“As artificial intelligence matures, we must redefine the role of computers in warfighting. So how exactly will computers be seen as our partner? [Causal] reasoning, performance robustness, and even brain control or prosthetic limbs, just to name a few examples,” Mr. Deasy said of the agency’s AI initiatives at the DoDIIS Worldwide conference in Omaha, Neb., according to FedScoop.
Currently, DOD’s “second wave” of AI is driven by machine learning, as the agency studies the science behind the technology and how best to apply it. Mr. Deasy added that setting the right foundation with cloud computing and data management within the department are crucial for the DOD’s AI efforts. Moreover, accurate data is a must; without it, “AI is irrelevant,” he said.
“Data is the common denominator for any successful artificial intelligence program,” Mr. Deasy said. “AI will not succeed … without accurate data, which is our strategic asset. The problem we face is: Where is that data? What is the format of that data? How do we access that data? And most importantly: How do we churn that raw, unstructured data in the right way that we can produce smart algorithms.”
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