The Navy is thinking about artificial intelligence in two ways: the infrastructure to make unmanned systems work and technology meant to enhance how sailor and their commanders make decisions, a panel of technical and policy experts said Tuesday. The output provided by AI is there help the human or supplement manned operations with unmanned assets, […]
Deploying data scientists alongside special ops troops lets them solve intelligence-sharing problems “in minutes or hours,” said Special Operations Command’s first-ever CTO.
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Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. on January 14, 2021 at 4:30 PM
An Air Force maintenance sergeant at work on an HH-60 helicopter.
WASHINGTON: “When you talk about defense spending, there are very few places that you can spend money and actually get a positive fiscal return on your investment,” notes Lt. Gen. Mike Groen, director of the Pentagon’s Joint Artificial Intelligence Center. “AI has places where you can actually spend money to make money.”
Lt. Gen. Michael Groen
But before any given organization in the Defense Department can reap the benefits of AI, Groen told me in an exclusive interview, it has to do two things:
Today’s huge HQs are slow-moving “rocket magnets” that can’t keep up in 21st century combat, the director of the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center told us in an exclusive interview. To survive and win, Lt. Gen. Mike Groen said, the military must replace cumbersome manual processes with AI.
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Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. on January 12, 2021 at 3:21 PM
“We lost the initiative early.
“We just couldn’t move fast enough. We were trying to coordinate the campaign through multiple chat rooms and email queries, while they just seemed to flow over us. Our sensor to shooter links could never move from detection to action fast enough to match their tempo. By the time we knew what was going on, the fight seemed to flow to another region or domain. And once we fell behind, we were constantly reacting, never able to make a decisive move.
“We started thinking about what they were going to do to us, instead of how we were going to bring the fight to them. How did they know we were here? How did they execute so fast? Why were we so slow?”