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 to 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. The Department of Defense (DoD) and Intelligence Community (IC) Integration is chartered to create joint interoperability and leverage one another to harness and scale AI across the DoD. The organizational purpose is to improve coordination and interoperability between DoD and the IC, minimize duplication while maximizing a common approach, and develop an innovated joint AI operational concept and capability, where appropriate. This funding is assigned to support elements across three levels of effort: intelligence mission structure; compute and storage; and intelligence capabilities. Further details are classified and available upon request.

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Document Details

Document Type
R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2023
Source ID
0604124D8Z_4_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 realignment of funding from the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security (USDI&S) supports the consolidation of the Department’s existing functional efforts in order to align manpower and funding under the OCDAO.
Service Agency Name
Office of the Secretary Of Defense

Entities

Organizations

  • Office of the Secretary of Defense

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Engineered Resilient Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Cost Analysis
  • Costs
  • Department Of Defense
  • Deployment
  • Drone Targeting
  • Ecosystems
  • Intelligence Community
  • Interoperability
  • Manpower
  • Product Development
  • Prototypes
  • Storage

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • 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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