{"id":51153,"date":"2022-11-30T20:24:09","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T20:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2022\/11\/30\/us-air-force-must-automate-more-to-maintain-advantage-cio-says\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T18:32:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T18:32:22","slug":"us-air-force-must-automate-more-to-maintain-advantage-cio-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/air\/2022\/11\/30\/us-air-force-must-automate-more-to-maintain-advantage-cio-says\/","title":{"rendered":"US Air Force must \u2018automate more\u2019 to maintain advantage, CIO says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

WASHINGTON \u2014 The U.S. Air Force must embrace artificial intelligence to remain dominant in a world where militaries increasingly employ advanced computing and make decisions at a quicker clip, according to the service\u2019s top IT official.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe have to automate more. That\u2019s kind of a first step,\u201d Chief Information Officer Lauren Knausenberger said<\/a> Nov. 30 at a livestreamed event hosted by the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies. \u201cIf we tried to do everything today manually, leveraging the same processes that we always have, we\u2019re not going to have the speed that we need for any of our kill chains.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Air Force already uses AI for predictive maintenance, education, imagery analysis and more. The technology is also a pillar of the Advanced Battle Management System, the service\u2019s contribution to Joint All-Domain Command and Control, an attempt to seamlessly link forces across land, air, sea, space and cyber.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The speed and flexibility afforded by AI and machine learning, U.S. defense officials say, are needed to maintain an edge over technologically savvy competitors including China and Russia. The National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence similarly concluded the U.S. must take AI seriously, as it will \u201creorganize the world.\u201d The Pentagon has followed suit, launching the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office<\/a>, which subsumed the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center and other older entities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Knausenberger on Wednesday said the Air Force is \u201cdoing some very interesting things\u201d with AI, \u201csome just in the lab, some on the battlefield, some embedded in things that we are building today.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\t