
Air Force acquisition chief Will Roper said on Dec. 7 that a crisis will likely force the Pentagon to embrace artificial intelligence (AI) and ways to involve commercial start-up innovators in scaling up AI quickly. "I think creating a true militarized Internet across our military platforms--an Internet of Military Things--is going to put us face to face with the AI dilemma--not necessarily how to fight it on the battlefield, though that is a dilemma we need to be worried about--[but]…