Uncle Sam Needs AI, ASAP: DoD Artificial Intelligence Chief
“To make AI our military’s future, it must become our military’s present,†says Lt. Gen. Michael Groen, director of the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center, in this exclusive op-ed for Breaking Defense.
By Michael Groen on January 11, 2021 at 7:01 AM
The Defense Department envisions AI networks linking forces across land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace.
“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?â€
This excerpt from a fictional after-action report tells the story of a force that failed to transform its capabilities to the demands of Information Age warfighting. If the US military is to prevail in such conflicts in the future, it needs to make artificial intelligence a reality – today.
https://breakingdefense.com/2021/01/uncle-sam-needs-ai-asap-dod-artificial-intelligence-chief/
