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Pentagon’s CDAO Developing Guidance To Implement New AI Strategy

By Cal Biesecker

Friday, November 3rd, 2023

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Pentagon’s CDAO Developing Guidance To Implement New AI Strategy

Dr. Craig Martell, chief digital and artificial intelligence officer at the Department of Defense. Photo: DoD

The Defense Department’s Office of the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Officer (CDAO) expects to publish guidance in the next two months to help implement the department's new Data Analytics and A.I. Adoption Strategy, which codifies a shift to a decentralized approach to AI and machine learning operations to take advantage of industry advancements the past few years. The forthcoming guidance will not look like a traditional implementation plan but rather a set of best practices to outline patterns of…

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