The Pentagon is trying 'to be less hard to work with' for tech companies
Chief digital officer points to a planned data-sharing ecosystem for industry and a new agreement with DIU.
EDWARD GRAHAM | JULY 1, 2024
The Pentagon is attempting “to be less hard to work with” on data and IT projects, its chief digital officer said recently.
One way is to hold a series of industry days, starting in mid-July, Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Officer Radha Plumb said Wednesday at the AWS Summit.
But her office has also taken larger steps recently. Last month, the CDAO announced a new ecosystem — Open Data and Applications Government-owned Interoperable Repositories, or Open DAGIR — to coordinate data-sharing with companies and to increase its own data, artificial intelligence, and analytics capabilities.
Earlier this month, DOD picked Palantir to develop the ecosystem, which will initially be used to support the Pentagon’s connect-everything effort called Combined Joint All Domain Command and Control, or CJADC2. At the time, Plumb said Open DAGIR would help DOD use “innovative solutions from the world-class software developers in both the traditional and nontraditional industrial base to create capabilities for our warfighters and decision makers.”
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