AI Development to Be Applied in Pentagon 

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The US Department of Defense has taken another step forward in its push to get the Department AI ready. The DoD’s Joint AI Center (JAIC) is weighing whether to link its new AI technology development platform with other similar Pentagon and service-led platforms in an effort to create a unified system of systems that will drive future advances in military AI.

JAIC is the DoD’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) Center of Excellence that provides a critical mass of expertise to help the Department harness the game-changing power of AI.

Officials from JAIC are exploring development of a so-called ‘joint common fabric’, which would consist of various AI development platforms like the US Air Force’s Platform One and elements of the US Army’s AI Task Force among others, as an outgrowth from the centre’s own development platform, the Joint Common Foundation (JCF).

The challenge is to find a way to connect the development platforms into a fabric of platforms, in order to share data readily from an army sensor into an air force system, or vice versa.

Developed in 2020, the JCF is a cloud-enabled AI platform that will accelerate the development, testing, and fielding of new AI capabilities. Through the use of a common AI platform backed by “shared infrastructure resources” drawn from within the Pentagon and across the services, the JCF “ensures progress [this] AI initiative will build momentum across the entire [Department of Defense] enterprise”, it added, according to JAIC cited by janes.com.