“NATIONAL DEFENSE MAGAZINE” By Laura Heckmann
“The Army’s ongoing effort to accelerate the secure adoption of artificial intelligence wrapped up an initial 100-day sprint paving the way for its next objective: a 500-day plan to operationalize it.
The 500-day plan is ‘really focusing on solving some of the gaps that the whole industry has right now in the AI space” such as securing commercial technology and testing‘, Jennifer Swanson, deputy assistant secretary of the Army for data, engineering and software, told reporters”.
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“Announced in March, the Army’s AI Implementation Plan kicked off with a 100-day risk assessment sprint to lay the foundation for “a single, coherent approach to AI across the Army, aligning multiple, complex efforts within 100 and 500-day execution windows” and establish a baseline to “continuously modernize AI” and contribute “solutions as technologies rapidly evolve,” an Army release stated.
Young Bang, principal deputy assistant secretary of the Army for acquisition, logistics and technology, said the 100-day window is complete and being used to build the plan’s next installment.
“The 100-day plan really looked at, ‘How do we set the conditions around accelerating AI adoption for the Army?” including risk associated with third-party vendor algorithms and creating a pathway for industry to work with the Army’s secure network, he said at the National Defense Industrial Association Michigan Chapter’s Ground Vehicle Systems Engineering and Technology Symposium and Modernization Update in August.
Among the 100-day targeted outcomes were an AI acquisition playbook, an AI layered defense framework called “Defend AI,” a generative AI policy and training, Bang said.
“Those are actually real” outcomes, he said. The project’s 500-day plan is currently under construction based on conditions set by the first 100 days, he added.
“Now that we are setting conditions in the 100-day plan, we’re working on [the] 500-day plan to lay out the details across that,” Bang said, adding that the Army is the first service to have money in its program objective memorandum for an artificial intelligence program of record.
Jennifer Swanson, deputy assistant secretary of the Army for data, engineering and software, told reporters the 500-day plan is “really focusing on solving some of the gaps that the whole industry has right now in the AI space” such as securing commercial technology and testing.
The next window will also add “counter-AI capabilities and methodologies and processes,” she said. “We know we’re not the only ones doing this, so really kind of looking at the big picture in terms of the capabilities we need and what others will have that we need to counter.”
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