{"id":21954,"date":"2019-03-20T20:33:15","date_gmt":"2019-03-20T20:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/uncategorized\/2019\/03\/20\/a-dod-ai-expert-is-coming-and-that-could-mean-big-things-for-directed-energy\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T22:29:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T22:29:24","slug":"a-dod-ai-expert-is-coming-and-that-could-mean-big-things-for-directed-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/it-networks\/2019\/03\/20\/a-dod-ai-expert-is-coming-and-that-could-mean-big-things-for-directed-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"A DoD AI expert is coming \u2014 and that could mean big things for directed energy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

WASHINGTON \u2014 A vacant Pentagon position on artificial intelligence<\/a> will be filled \u201cquite soon,\u201d with a focus on cross-cutting artificial intelligence through various technologies, according to undersecretary of research and engineering Michael Griffin<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Griffin, speaking to the Directed Energy Summit March 20, was asked about how AI can be applied to directed-energy weaponry<\/a>, which elicited him to say, \u201cWhat I know about AI can be written on the back of a tiny postage stamp.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hence, Griffin said, the R&E team is \u201cbringing on board a very capable person quite soon, I won\u2019t name him here, to head up AI. He will, in fact, as one of the assistant directors, be reporting directly to us, and one of our goals … that we want him to explore [is] answering exactly the question you\u2019ve posed: How do we integrate AI across the other priorities?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\t