Exclusive: NORTHCOM Head To Press DoD Leaders For AI Tools
NORTHCOM's GIDE experiments are aimed at applying AI decision-making tools to realistic scenarios "to show what's available now, and to change culture," Gen. Glen VanHerck, NORTHCOM commander, said.
By Theresa Hitchens on July 15, 2021 at 2:23 PM
Global Information Dominance Experiment (#GIDE3) 3 is part of a series of experiments to fundamentally change the way we collect and utilize data. Through information dominance, @NORADCommand and USNORTHCOM will outthink and outpace adversaries.
NORTHCOM’s Global Information Dominance Experiment 3 (GIDE 3) testing AI decision aids for commanders ran from July 8-15
WASHINGTON: Gen. Glen VanHerck, the head of US Northern Command, is pushing the Defense Department to rapidly adopt the use of artificial intelligence tools that would give decision-makers earlier, and better, options — not just for defeating an adversary on the battlefield, but for actually avoiding warfare in the first place.
In an exclusive interview this week, VanHerck said AI could help military commanders, US diplomats, allies and partner nations all formulate comprehensive strategies for deterring adversarial global powers, such as Russia and China, in what DoD calls the “gray zone,” also sometimes referred to as the “competition phase” or “left of conflict.”
“It creates options for multiple levers of influence, to be able to coordinate in near real-time to develop global, all-domain dilemmas [for adversaries] to get to deterrence,” said VanHerck, who in his position as NORTHCOM and NORAD head is responsible for defense of the homeland, where obviously the US military would prefer not to have to fight.
https://breakingdefense.com/2021/07/exclusive-northcom-head-to-press-dod-leaders-for-ai-tools/
