Chief Digital Artificial Intelligence Officer

Abstract

This program supports the Department's initiatives to build enduring advantage and build a resilient Joint Force and Defense ecosystem. On December 8, 2021, the Deputy Secretary of Defense (DSD) issued a memo establishing the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Officer (CDAO) as the Department’s senior official responsible for strengthening and integrating data, artificial intelligence, and digital solutions in the Department. The memorandum establishes the CDAO as the “successor organization to the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC)". The CDAO reached Initial Operational Capacity (IOC) on February 1, 2022 and will integrate the JAIC, the Defense Digital Service (DDS), the Office of the Chief Data Officer (OCDO), and the Advancing Analytics (Advana) office from OUSD (Comptroller) as it approaches Full Operational Capacity (FOC) on June 1, 2022. The integration of the JAIC, OCDO, DDS, and Advana into the CDAO more comprehensively restructures how the Department approaches the complex and dynamic challenges of becoming a digital, data, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) enabled enterprise capable of operating at the speed and scale necessary accelerate the Department’s adoption of data, analytics, and AI to preserve decision advantage. The functions of the CDAO are as follows: lead and oversee DoD’s strategy development and policy formulation for data, analytics, and AI; break down barriers to data and AI adoption within DoD institutional processes; create enabling digital infrastructure and services that support Components’ development and deployment of data, analytics, AI, and digital-enabled solutions; selectively scale proven digital and AI-enabled solutions focused on enterprise and joint use cases; and surge digital services for rapid response to crises and emergent challenges. This also requires CDAO to integrate the capabilities, personnel, resources, and governance of its constituent organizations, while concurrently sustaining momentum on priority projects that align to CDAO’s mission. These include expanding the enterprise data repository, establishing a responsible AI ecosystem, executing the AI and Data Accelerator (ADA) initiative, and developing a Data, Analytics, and AI Adoption Strategy. These various lines of effort will support the overarching mission of accelerating the Department’s adoption of data, analytics, and AI to preserve decision advantage across the Joint Force.

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Document Details

Document Type
R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2023
Source ID
0604123D8Z_5_0400_PB_2023
Change Summary Explanation
On December 8, 2021, the DSD issued a memo establishing the CDAO as the Department’s senior official responsible for strengthening and integrating data, artificial intelligence, and digital solutions in the Department. The memorandum establishes the CDAO as the “successor organization to the JAIC”. The CDAO reached IOC on February 1, 2022 and will integrate the JAIC, the DDS, the OCDO, and Advana as it approaches FOC on June 1, 2022. The FY 2023 changes reflect the transfer in of funding to support the consolidation of the Department’s existing functional efforts in order to align manpower and funding resources under the OCDAO; increases for Advana to address the gaps for collecting, reporting, and analyzing mishap data across the military departments’ safety centers, as identified in the GAO report 18-586R on Military Aviation Mishaps; and increases to develop Adversarial AI Test & Evaluation capabilities, AI/ML model card standards, a Scalable AI Test Harness, the CDAO data repository, data service marketplace, and enterprise ontologies in support of the 26 May, 2021, DSD memo on Responsible AI, which directed “establishing a test and evaluation and verification framework that integrates real-time monitoring, algorithm confidence metrics, and user feedback to ensure trusted and trustworthy AI capabilities.”
Service Agency Name
Office of the Secretary Of Defense

Entities

Organizations

  • Office of the Secretary of Defense

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Cyber
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accidents
  • Acquisition
  • Anomaly Detection
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Command And Control
  • Data Management
  • Data Science
  • Department Of Defense
  • Drone Targeting
  • Environment
  • Machine Learning
  • Military Aviation
  • Ontologies
  • Product Development
  • Standards
  • Storage
  • Test And Evaluation

Readers

  • Defense Technology Research and Development.
  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
  • Geospatial Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence Analytics

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - DoD AI Strategy

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