“The Defense Innovation Unit is incorporating commercial artificial intelligence at agencies across the Defense Department to improve military health, business processes, humanitarian aid and a variety of other areas across DOD.”
“DIU acts as the connector between DOD partners and private industries to enable DOD to prototype, transition to and scale advanced technologies. While DOD has its own organizations that work to implement technology in improving mission areas, DIU recognizes that industry partners tend to lead in not only AI, but also cyber, autonomous and human systems, space and advanced energy.”
“DIU Technical Director Jared Dunmon highlighted the AI and machine-learning portfolios and lines of effort that are underway during Tuesday’s FCW event. While these efforts range from AI infrastructure and complex systems control to operational decision support and predictive mission planning, Dunmon grounded these larger efforts in various project areas.”
Improving Defense Health
“Several of the Defense Health Agency’s military treatment facilities, as well as veterans treatment centers and the DOD’s Joint AI Center, are working with the DIU to advance predictive health efforts.”
“Misdiagnoses impact warfighter readiness and increase the cost of health care delivery, Dunmon said, so the DIU has connected its DOD customers with Google to sharpen diagnostic accuracy and increase early disease state identification with AI and machine learning.”
“’One thing that machine learning has shown promise in doing is being able to automatically identify areas of a pathology slide where there may actually be a disease or to classify that disease,’ Dunmon said. ‘We worked with the DOD partner to design a workflow where we can make use of these technologies in a way that improves our outcomes, but also still leverages our human expertise.’”
“This initiative, while only in a prototyping stage, has leveraged large pathology datasets to build image segmentation algorithms for disease detection. It has also used augmented reality microscopes at military medical treatment facilities (MTFs) and Veterans Affairs hospitals that support AI and machine-learning algorithms for disease type detection in a clinical trial setting…” Read the full article here.
Source: AI Partnerships Are Improving Defense Health, Business, Disaster Aid – By Melissa Harris, November 13, 2020. GovernmentCIO.
