The D Brief: DOD to launch AI accelerator; Army’s pandemic warning; Taliban advance; New study reveals suicide’s toll; And a bit more...
Bradley Peniston | June 22, 2021 11:07 AM ET
The Defense Department will launch a new AI and data accelerator initiative, Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks said Monday during the 6th Annual Defense One Tech Summit. Within the next 90 days, teams under the AIDA Initiative will be going out to "every single combatant command and start to tie in their data, and they'll also have technical expert teams on AI and they'll start looking at how to bring AI and data to the to the tactical edge in support of the warfighter," said Hicks.
JEDI decision, coming soon. Hicks also said that the Department is currently assessing its options for moving forward to acquire a new joint enterprise cloud solution, now that the beleaguered JEDI contract is tied up in litigation. “We have a good sense of what our needs are and we're working through what the potential solutions are,” Hicks said in conversation with Defense One’s Patrick Tucker. “We’ll be moving forward … in a direction over the next, you know, month or so, but I'm not going to get into where we might end up.” Read on, here.
The Tech Summit continues virtually this afternoon (Eastern time) with Walter S. Chai, who directs the Missile Defense Agency’s Missile Integration and Operations Center; Derek M. Tournear, who directs the Space Development Agency; Col. Eric Felt, who leads the Space Vehicles Directorate at Kirtland AFB; and Kelly D. Hammett, who directs the Directed Energy Directorate of the Air Force Research Laboratory. Register here.
https://www.defenseone.com/threats/2021/06/the-d-brief-june-22-2021/174862/
