Marine Corps initiates deployment of new ‘digital transformation teams’
Marine Corps AI lead Capt. Christopher Clark shared details about a new three-year pilot program at the AITalks conference.
By
Brandi Vincent
April 24, 2025
The Marine Corps recently launched a pilot program that’s deploying “digital transformation teams” around the service to help personnel digitize processes, expand trustworthy data pipelines, identify vulnerabilities, and ultimately align and expedite AI-enabling applications for real-world operations, according to a top official involved.
During a keynote presentation and sideline conversations with DefenseScoop at the AITalks conference on Thursday, Marine Corps AI lead Capt. Christopher Clark shared new details about the push to enhance the service’s technological infrastructure and spark a meaningful digital transformation over the next three years.
“We are, as a small service with a limited budget, very interested in ensuring that AI implementation is effective and that it is needed, and that we’re not just employing and deploying on top of AI solutions that are just flashy and expensive, right? So to do that, we have the AI implementation plan, which we are expecting to have released here very soon,” Clark said.
A new pilot initiative to establish three (and possibly more) digital transformation teams, or DTXs, within Marine Corps organizations to more strategically pave the way for AI at scale marks a major early component of that new plan, he announced.
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