{"id":50451,"date":"2023-07-18T20:27:33","date_gmt":"2023-07-18T20:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2023\/07\/18\/sluggish-procurement-stalling-pentagon-progress-on-ai-experts-say\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T18:41:48","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T18:41:48","slug":"sluggish-procurement-stalling-pentagon-progress-on-ai-experts-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/pentagon\/2023\/07\/18\/sluggish-procurement-stalling-pentagon-progress-on-ai-experts-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Sluggish procurement stalling Pentagon progress on AI, experts say"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON \u2014 The Pentagon\u2019s procurement process is one of several major obstacles hampering efforts to develop and apply artificial intelligence technology, a panel of AI experts told members of Congress Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The ninety-minute hearing, convened by the House Armed Services Committee to assess the barriers inhibiting the Department of Defense\u2019s adoption of AI, was framed by bipartisan geopolitical anxieties: how can the U.S. maintain its technological edge over China, and what are the risks of falling behind? Experts said the Pentagon has shown an inability to efficiently identify, acquire, and deploy promising new technology, hurting its bid for AI supremacy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOne of the challenges in adopting AI in the government, in particular the Department of Defense, is the slow procurement process,\u201d Haniyeh Mahmoudian, an ethicist at the AI platform DataRobot, told lawmakers. \u201cAI is an evolving space and long procurement cycles and delays can lead to obsolete AI tools that will require retraining due to changes in data over time.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Government Accountability Office report <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gao.gov\/products\/gao-23-105850\">published<\/a> last month found that the DoD lacks a \u201ccomprehensive department-wide guidance for AI acquisitions.\u201d This oversight, the report said, \u201ccould result in acquisition of AI capabilities across the services that does not consistently address the unique challenges associated with AI or the specific needs of the acquiring service.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Pentagon piloted an online contract exchange called Tradewind last year to expedite the acquisition of AI technology. Alexandr Wang, the founder and CEO of data processing company Scale AI, thinks the platform is worth building upon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhat we need to look towards in the next era of AI is doubling down on some of these fast procurement methods and ensuring that we continue to innovate,\u201d he said at the hearing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wang\u2019s firm <a href=\"https:\/\/fedscoop.com\/scale-ai-awarded-250m-ai-contract-by-department-of-defense\/\">secured<\/a> $250 million in DOD funding last January. The contract bankrolls several data-heavy projects across different branches, including Army robotic combat vehicles and vast, department-wide pattern recognition systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Pentagon\u2019s partnership with Scale epitomized recent efforts by American military leadership to translate its abstract commitments to AI integration into concrete policies and programs. The department launched the Chief Digital and AI Office in 2022 to coordinate the agency\u2019s ever-evolving medley of AI-related proclamations, tests and hardware. The GAO <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c4isrnet.com\/artificial-intelligence\/2023\/05\/31\/us-army-may-ask-defense-industry-to-disclose-ai-algorithms\/\">estimates<\/a> that the newborn office oversees close to 700 AI projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A top-down redesign of the agency\u2019s acquisition policies won\u2019t be enough to guarantee American victory in the AI arms race, the witnesses cautioned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wang spent much of his testimony knocking the Pentagon\u2019s wasteful approach to data usage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAI systems are only as good as the data that they are trained on,\u201d Wang told lawmakers. \u201cThe DoD creates more than 22 terabytes of data daily, and because of their outdated data retention and management policies, warfighters, analysts, and operators are unable to tap into its full potential because it is not AI-ready.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wang and his peers suspect DoD\u2019s poor data processing capabilities could be the product of insufficient AI-specific military spending.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cChina is spending between 1% and 1.5% of its military budget on AI, while the US is spending between 0.1% and 0.2%,\u201d according to Wang. \u201cAdjusted for the total military budget, China is spending ten times more than the U.S.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The expert panel and their congressional questioners also dissected the DOD\u2019s ethical guidelines surrounding the technology. The agency <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defense.gov\/News\/Releases\/release\/article\/2091996\/dod-adopts-ethical-principles-for-artificial-intelligence\/\">released<\/a> a broad set of \u201cethical principles for the use of AI\u201d in February 2020. The next step, DataRobot\u2019s Mahmoudian said, requires making these \u201cabstract\u201d frameworks \u201cpractical\u201d by educating personnel and leadership about the technology\u2019s implications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI), chairman of the Cyber, Information Technologies, and Innovation subcommittee, painted the consequences of stagnation in stark relief.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cDo we want AI to be leveraged for good and the deterrence of conflict, or evil and the proliferation of it? 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