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Jack Shanahan, director of the JAIC, said May 21 that if the center is to fulfill its mission of accelerating artificial intelligence adoption across the department and deliver products to commanders, then it needs the power to unilaterally procure AI services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As it stands, the JAIC has to go through contract vehicles provided by organizations like the General Services Administration, the Defense Information Systems Agency or the Defense Innovation Unit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s not going to be fast enough as we start putting more and more money into this capability development,\u201d Shanahan said, speaking on a webinar hosted by the AFCEA Washington, D.C., chapter. \u201cWe need our own acquisition authority. We have to move faster.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shanahan, who is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c4isrnet.com\/artificial-intelligence\/2020\/01\/31\/pentagons-top-artificial-intelligence-official-to-retire\/\" target=_blank>departing <\/a>next month, said there is \u201cvery strong support\u201d for a \u201cwillingness to consider\u201d giving the center different acquisition authorities and models.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His comments came just a few days after the JAIC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c4isrnet.com\/artificial-intelligence\/2020\/05\/18\/booz-allen-hamilton-wins-massive-pentagon-artificial-intelligence-contract\/\" target=_blank>awarded a five-year contract, potentially worth $800 million, to Booz Allen Hamilton<\/a> through a GSA contract vehicle for data management and delivery of AI services to commanders. The effort is part of the JAIC\u2019s new joint war-fighting initiative, which is working on its first lethality project this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shanahan called the award \u201ca pretty big deal&#8221; for pushing the JAIC forward in producing war-fighting services to commanders. Its war-fighting initiative will focus on lower-level tasks at first, he said, \u201cbecause we can\u2019t afford to get anything wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said those efforts include AI for \u201caccelerating\u201d the call for fires process, by which soldiers call in artillery using video, text or another \u201cmanual, laborious\u201d process. He also added that JAIC is working to develop AI solutions to \u201cstitch seams together\u201d across all the services for multidomain operations or the concept of Joint All-Domain Command and Control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The projects are a part of JAIC\u2019s major emphasis on delivering products to commanders this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe have to have the combatant commanders in the service knocking at our door saying: \u2018We can\u2019t afford [for] you to go away, we need you to provide too desperately to cut you,\u2019 \u201d Shanahan said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As Shanahan prepares his exit, however, he warned that the United States needs to move fast in developing AI to ensure superiority over China. A lack of enterprise cloud-computing capability at the Defense Department \u201chas slowed us down\u201d in developing AI tools for the Pentagon, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shanahan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.federaltimes.com\/govcon\/contracting\/2019\/10\/30\/so-what-problems-does-jedi-solve-really\/\" target=_blank>has been a champion<\/a> of the Pentagon\u2019s embattled Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud, or JEDI, which has been delayed for more than a year due to protests. He considers the enterprise platform crucial to the advancement of the Pentagon\u2019s AI capabilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Microsoft beat out Amazon Web Services for the award last year, but a federal court <a href=\"https:\/\/www.federaltimes.com\/it-networks\/cloud\/2020\/02\/13\/pentagon-and-microsoft-must-halt-work-on-jedi-cloud-for-now\/\" target=_blank>has halted the department\u2019s work<\/a> on building the infrastructure because of potential flaws in the procurement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The delay has forced the JAIC to use other cloud platforms in the interim. 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