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WASHINGTON \u2014 President Joe Biden\u2019s deputy secretary of defense<\/a> nominee would establish measurements to judge how the Pentagon adopts artificial intelligence<\/a> as it seeks to modernize for future battles<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For her confirmation hearing Feb 2., Kathleen Hicks said the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center will drive the Pentagon\u2019s artificial intelligence adoption in the next few years, according to her written responses to the Senate Armed Services Committee\u2019s advance policy questions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The JAIC, a 2-year-old organization dedicated to expanding use of artificial intelligence across Pentagon components, reports directly<\/a> to the deputy secretary of defense under the latest federal defense policy law, a move that experts say signals understanding in Congress and at the department of the technology\u2019s importance for the military.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAI is an operational tool across a wide range of war fighting, support enterprises and business practices; it must have continued, visible support by defense senior leadership,\u201d Hicks wrote. \u201cIf confirmed, I will assess the reporting arrangement to ensure it enables defense leadership to gain broad visibility and accountability for AI efforts across the department.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hicks plans to \u201censure a regular schedule of interactions\u201d with top JAIC leadership to \u201censure AI transformation is considered holistically and driven at the department level, with the urgency and level of oversight demanded,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The JAIC has recently pivoted to what it calls JAIC 2.0 with a focus on assisting DoD components as they try to implement artificial intelligence to meet war-fighting needs. Lt. Gen. Michael Groen, director of the JAIC, said in November that he wants to reach out to service components and combatant commands to better understand their needs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The JAIC will start to provide services early this year to components, such as assessing their readiness for artificial intelligence tools, Groen said. The organization is also working with the services on Combined Joint All-Domain Command and Control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf confirmed, the JAIC will be my tool for guiding the transformation of the department through the integration of AI across DoD\u2019s war-fighting, support and business enterprises,\u201d Hicks wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Artificial intelligence is one of several of the DoD\u2019s modernization priorities as the department works to divest of its costly and inefficient legacy systems. Hicks said she would \u201cwork with the department\u2019s civilian and military leadership and with Congress\u201d to determine what divestment decisions need to be made. Maintaining legacy systems while investing in new ones will be a challenge for DoD leadership with budgets expected to be flat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Top military leadership in the services seems to recognize that those tradeoffs will have to be made soon. In a recent op-ed in The Washington Post, Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr., Air Force chief of staff, and Gen. David H. Berger, Marine Corps commandant, wrote that the military must reassess how it defines readiness and invests in technology to prepare for near-peer threats. Key components of the future fight, they wrote, are data and artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe recommend adding to readiness metrics new layers of analysis utilizing artificial intelligence to leverage the military\u2019s data-rich environment,\u201d the two four-star generals wrote<\/a>. \u201cSuch a framework would enable military service chiefs to better prioritize investments in research, development and future force design initiatives, rather than spending the majority of their resources on making decades-old capabilities ready for employment.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The department also needs to improve how it takes advantage of innovative technologies from nontraditional contractors. Asked what steps the DoD should take to improve its access to promising technologies outside the Pentagon, Hicks wrote that she wants to shift the department to an broader approach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI will seek to better connect and build on these disparate efforts to ensure an enterprise-wide shift toward innovation,\u201d Hicks said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She wants to build on the work of DoD innovation hubs, such as the Defense Innovation Unit and other service efforts. However, one criticism of these hubs is that few projects actually transition to programs of record.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTo improve emerging technologies\u2019 prospects transitioning to the war fighter, the department should continually improve its systems engineering expertise, apply mission-based engineering analysis, and employ robust prototyping, experimentation and demonstration campaigns,\u201d Hick wrote. \u201cIf confirmed, I will support these activities, ensure that we align emerging technologies with new concepts and key missions, and work to ensure that more technologies traverse the so-called \u2018valley of death.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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