{"id":34250,"date":"2022-12-14T15:08:08","date_gmt":"2022-12-14T15:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/uncategorized\/2022\/12\/14\/pentagons-ai-ambitions-require-high-quality-data-cdaos-martell-says\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T18:43:33","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T18:43:33","slug":"pentagons-ai-ambitions-require-high-quality-data-cdaos-martell-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/artificial-intelligence\/2022\/12\/14\/pentagons-ai-ambitions-require-high-quality-data-cdaos-martell-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon\u2019s AI ambitions require high-quality data, CDAO\u2019s Martell says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

SAN ANTONIO \u2014 To foster artificial intelligence the U.S. Department of Defense can deploy and rely on, a foundation of \u201creally high-quality data\u201d must first be laid, according to the Pentagon\u2019s AI czar, Craig Martell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Such a task, he said Dec. 13 at the DODIIS Worldwide Conference<\/a> in Texas, has become his main charge some eight months into leading the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhat is our job at the CDAO? We originally thought our job at the CDAO was to produce tools for those in the government to do modeling. We no longer think that\u2019s the case,\u201d he said. \u201cWe say that we want to build the scaffolding that goes around the model. We want to help folks build and use that model.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Established in December 2021, the CDAO hit its first full strides in June<\/a>. It subsumed what were the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center, the Defense Digital Service, the Advana auditing platform and the chief data officer\u2019s role.<\/p>\n\n\n\t