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; create enabling digital infrastructure and services; selectively scale and provide digital and AI-enabled solutions focused on enterprise and joint use cases; and surge digital services. The CDAO will continue priority projects that align to the mission. This includes expanding the enterprise data repository; establishing a responsible AI ecosystem; developing 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. This exhibit encompasses two activities: AI Acquisition Training and Responsible AI (RAI) and AI Governance Tools. The DoD must overhaul its acquisition processes and prioritize technical and acquisition training as highlighted in the 2018 National Defense Strategy, the 2018 DoD Artificial Intelligence Strategy, and the 2021 National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence (NSCAI) Final Report. This funding will provide the basis of the training platform -Digital DNA Pilot Program- in partnership with OUSD(A&S). It is also incumbent on the Department to ensure all its AI-enabled systems will be safe and adhere to ethical standards and that they are used in a manner that contributes to the efficiency, effectiveness, and legitimacy of the Department’s AI capabilities. This requirement funds activities to develop, procure and maintain the necessary commercial and DoD-customized tools to put the DoD AI Ethical Principles into practice across the entire AI product lifecycle. RAI leaders across the Department are going to need access to and utilize tools that support the capability development process, including in areas of explainability of models, bias detection, and other areas necessary for RAI. This requirement provides for the integration of commercially available tools, to include an Explainable AI tool, Synthetic Data & Anonymization tool, Data Management and Traceability tool, Continuous Integration/ Continual Delivery tool, Auto-Machine Learning tool, Bias Mitigation tool, and the Interference Time tool, into the developer’s workflow to operationalize the DoD AI Ethics Principles. By doing so, these tools will not only provide technical assessments through the project lifecycle, but also allow for traceability and reliability to ensure safe and ethical systems from design to development and deployment to use. This requirement also funds the development of DoD-customized assessments and tools that RAI leads will use across the AI product and acquisition lifecycles.
Document Details
- Document Type
- R2 Budgetary Justification
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2024
- Source ID
- 0606135D8Z_6_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
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