Department of Defense Data, Analytics, and Artificial Intelligence Adoption Strategy: Accelerating Decision Advantage
Abstract
The Department of Defense (DoD) has been investing in artificial intelligence (AI) and responsibly fielding data- and AI-enabled systems for over 60 years. Today, data, analytics, and AI technologies are increasingly available to DoD Components and providing value to our service members. Alongside industry's advancements, DoD has for years made steady and swift improvements to its data foundation and analytics capabilities: experimenting with AI through research and development, integrating these technologies into business and warfighting functions, and laying the foundation for their use at scale. As our investment, experimentation, and innovation continues and accelerates, our task now is to drive the diffusion of these technologies across the enterprise. Although our strategic competitors have ambitious aims for AI, the United States and its military possess strong structural advantages in talent, warfighting experience, technology availability, and systems integration -- not to mention the values that guide everything we do. Equipping our people with the tools and resources to make better decisions faster will increase the efficiency of DoD business operations, make our warfighting capabilities and the people who command them more effective, and create opportunities to employ novel operational concepts. Responsibly and rapidly realizing the full promise of data, analytics, and AI is not the sole job of a single organization or program; its on all of us. Providing DoD data as an enterprise resource, for instance, requires more sharing and collaboration, not less. We seek an agile strategic approach that guides decentralized action across DoD, inspires campaigns of learning, and leverages all our people, processes, and enabling technologies. As we have integrated analytics and AI applications, we have observed their benefits and learned crucial lessons about their limitations.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jun 27, 2023
- Accession Number
- AD1221804
Entities
People
- Kathleen H. Hicks
Organizations
- United States Department of Defense