“The Joint Artificial Intelligence Center, a high-profile focus point for AI adoption across the Pentagon, will cease to exist come June 1, as it and two other offices are rolled under the newly created Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Officer.
Two other key parts of the Pentagon’s technology network will also be subsumed officially into CDAO at the start of the month, when the new office reaches its full operational capability: the Defense Digital Service, which provides rapid technology solutions across the department, and the Office of Advancing Analytics, or ADVANA. In all three cases, the personnel who make up the offices are expected to remain as part of the CDAO staff, but will be diffused with the office stovepipes removed…”
““What that means in practice [is] the CDO, DDS and JAIC are each going to report up to the CDAO and create a tech stack that lets us integrate data, software and AI,” the official said then. “The goal there is to optimize their value and try to consider them more holistically.” Read the full article here.
Source: Say goodbye to JAIC and DDS, as offices cease to exist as independent bodies June 1 – By Jaspreet Gill, May 24, 2022. Breaking Defense.
