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CENTCOM AI/ML Wish List Points to Future Predictive Goals for Project Maven

CENTCOM AI/ML Wish List Points to Future Predictive Goals for Project Maven
Amentum contractors with the 62nd Expeditionary Attack Squadron at Al Dhafra Air Base, United Arab Emirates, attach a dummy munition to a U.S. MQ-9 Reaper during the Operation Agile Spartan 4 exercise on March 10. The exercise was to demonstrate new Agile Combat Employment capabilities for Al Dhafra AB by simulating the establishment and use of mock cluster bases, which then reported back to the Wing Operations Center. (U.S. Air Force Photo)

U.S. Central Command's (CENTCOM) fiscal 2024 wish list points to what the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA) has said is a primary longer term goal of artificial intelligence (AI)--the prediction of adversary behaviors that a human analyst may not have envisioned. The CENTCOM fiscal 2024 wish tabulation--one of a number of DoD's incongruously named "unfunded priority lists" (UPLs)--includes $34 million for Palantir Technologies' [PLTR] Maven Smart System (MSS). An Arlington, Va., watchdog group, Taxpayers for Common Sense, posted the CENTCOM…

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