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Crisis Will Likely Force Pentagon to Adopt and Scale Up Commercial AI, Air Force Acquisition Chief Says

Crisis Will Likely Force Pentagon to Adopt and Scale Up Commercial AI, Air Force Acquisition Chief Says
A 2017 photo of the Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Division at the Combined Air Operations Center at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar, which provides a common threat and targeting picture that are key to planning and executing theater wide aerospace operations to meet the Combined Forces Air Component commander’s objectives (U.S. Air Force Photo)

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]…

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