
Top Pentagon technology officials told a House armed services panel Tuesday the department’s new artificial intelligence center is open and focused on scaling up current commercial and military capabilities needed to spur big data projects and match increasingly massive AI investments from peer competitors. Lawmakers on the Emerging Threats and Capabilities subcommittee pressed Dana Deasy, the DoD CIO, and Lisa Porter, deputy undersecretary of defense for research and engineering, on the new Joint Artificial Intelligence Center’s (JAIC) capacity to deliver…