Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC)

Abstract

The JAIC was established to preserve and expand our military advantage in support of the Department’s 2018 National Defense Strategy (NDS). As a primarily executing body it will accelerate the delivery of Artificial Intelligence (AI) enabled capabilities, scale the Department-wide impact of AI, and synchronize Department of Defense (DoD) AI activities to expand Joint Force advantages. The JAIC mission is to accelerate the delivery of AI to achieve impact scaled across the DoD at relevant speed to transform the DoD and ensure the nation maintains a competitive advantage. JAIC capitalizes on Project Maven’s efforts as the pathfinder AI initiative for the DoD to further critical AI architecture and prototyping to rapidly expand AI to other mission areas. As JAIC efforts prove relevant, they will expedite technology transition from the laboratory to operational use, and increase Joint Force capability. Most military data storage, utilization, and analytic tools and systems were designed pre-AI and require specialized integration to enable the insertion of algorithms into their software baseline. JAIC capabilities are commercial technology initiatives that insert commercial AI into existing programs of record. JAIC will execute an initial sequence of cross-functional use cases to demonstrate value and create momentum, called National Mission Initiatives (NMI). NMIs will rapidly develop and deploy AI across the Joint Force for selected high-priority, pressing operational or business reform challenges. Additionally, JAIC will work closely with individual components to help identify, shape, and accelerate component-specific AI deployments, called Component Mission Initiatives (CMI). Both NMI and CMI efforts will include selecting commercial and academic partners for prototypes, and develop standardized processes with respect to data, testing and evaluation, and cybersecurity. JAIC will use lessons learned from these initial projects to establish new processes and standards that will be repeatable across additional projects and immediately relevant to the Joint Force. This will be done in collaboration with partners across technology companies, consulting firms, academia, government labs, Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDC), services, and international partners. To support NDS, the JAIC will catalyze and develop AI capabilities to enhance readiness and lethality and ensure DoD maintains an advantage over adversaries. JAIC will spearhead this unique opportunity to expand the competitive space across all domains with AI. JAIC efforts will directly contribute to increased military readiness towards a more lethal Joint Force, it will strengthen alliances and attract new partners by focusing on global problems, and it will enable Departmental reform to increase performance and affordability. JAIC will cultivate workforce talent by recruiting, developing, and retaining high-quality personnel to enable the development and delivery of AI. This will bring critical skills into the department by drawing outside expertise, and leveraging small companies, start-ups, and universities. Implementing AI at a speed of relevance hinges on the ability to integrate AI better than our adversaries, and the JAIC will enable the Department to adapt AI into how it fights. JAIC will focus on speed of delivery, continuous adaptation, and frequent capability delivery sprints. To fully realize this potential, the JAIC will pioneer AI approaches across the full scale of the global enterprise in a manner that is jointly interoperable with allies, partners, military Services, and agencies. Specifically, JAIC will identify and implement new organizational approaches, establish key AI building blocks and standards, develop and attract AI talent, and introduce new operational models that will enable DoD to systematically take advantage of AI at enterprise scale. The JAIC will fulfill the National Security Strategy and NDS to ensure conventional overmatch through dual-use commercial technology and partnered DoD-developed AI. The JAIC will collaborate with non-governmental organizations, corporations, strategic influencers, and partners and allies. JAIC will seize the initiative to lead the world in the development and adoption of transformative defense AI solutions that are safe, ethical, and secure. JAIC will spearhead this effort, engaging with the best minds in government, the private sector, academia, and international community.

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Document Details

Document Type
R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2021
Source ID
0604532K_7_0400_PB_2021
Change Summary Explanation
The decrease of -$25.000 in FY 2020 is due to a Congressional general reduction. The increase of +$97.924 in FY 2021 is to accelerate delivery of Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms and upgrade AI capabilities for adoption by the Military Departments.
Service Agency Name
Defense Information Systems Agency

Entities

Organizations

  • Defense Information Systems Agency

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Biomedical
  • C4I
  • Cyber
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Command And Control
  • Corporations
  • Data Analysis
  • Data Curation
  • Data Science
  • Data Storage Systems
  • Department Of Defense
  • Disasters
  • Drone Targeting
  • First Responders
  • Humanitarian Assistance
  • Information Systems
  • Intelligent Automation
  • Lessons Learned
  • National Security
  • Test And Evaluation

Readers

  • Defense Technology Research and Development.
  • Geospatial Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence Analytics

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - DoD AI Strategy
  • Cyber
  • Space

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