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House Panel Seeks Deputy SecDef Oversight, Board Of Directors For Joint Artificial Intelligence Center

House Panel Seeks Deputy SecDef Oversight, Board Of Directors For Joint Artificial Intelligence Center
U.S. Department of Defense Chief Information Officer Dana Deasy and The Director of the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center U.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. John N.T. Shanahan hold a round table meeting at the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., Feb. 12, 2019. (DoD photo by U.S. Army Sgt. Amber I. Smith)

The House Armed Services Subcommittee on Intelligence and Emerging Threats & Capabilities is calling for the Deputy Secretary of Defense to handle oversight of the Pentagon’s Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC), as well as creating a new board of directors for the organization to provide long-term strategic guidance. The subcommittee included the directives in its markup of the fiscal year 2021 defense authorization bill, released Sunday, calling it a means of continuing the maturation of the two-year-old JAIC. The mark…

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