Chief Digital Artificial Intelligence Officer

Abstract

The Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Officer (CDAO) supports the Department's initiatives to build enduring advantage and build a resilient Joint Force and defense ecosystem. The CDAO is responsible for strengthening and integrating data, artificial intelligence, and digital solutions in the Department in support of the National Defense Strategy and Section 1513 of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for FY 2023. The functions of the CDAO are as follows: lead and oversee the 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. The CDAO will continue priority projects that align to the mission. This includes expanding the AI integration between the DoD and Intelligence Community (IC); 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 CDAO’s DoD and IC Integration Division was chartered to create joint interoperability and to harness and scale AI across the DoD and IC jointly, especially within the Defense Intelligence Enterprise. 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 algorithm development, data preparation, and integration experimentation to create joint DoD and IC capabilities. Further details are classified and available upon request.

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Document Details

Document Type
R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2024
Source ID
0604124D8Z_4_0400_PB_2024
Change Summary Explanation
No change in FY 2024 funding.
Service Agency Name
Office of the Secretary Of Defense

Entities

Organizations

  • Office of the Secretary of Defense

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Engineered Resilient Systems (Alumni COI)

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Algorithms
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Communities
  • Contracts
  • Cost Analysis
  • Costs
  • Deployment
  • Drone Targeting
  • Ecosystems
  • Infrastructure
  • Intelligence Community
  • Interoperability
  • National Security
  • Product Development
  • Prototypes

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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