The Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering hosted an Artificial Intelligence Defense Technical Review to facilitate strategic cooperation on automated tech and AI throughout the joint global forces.
The second annual DTR event provided breakout sessions on joint command and control, or C2, at the tactical edge, AI orchestration at operational scale, reliance on federated AI and what lies ahead for federated AI in defense, the Pentagon said Thursday.
Kim Sablon, OUSD’s principal director for trusted AI and autonomy, discussed some of the conference’s notable achievements.
“One of significant outcomes from this year’s event included the roll out of the AI Passport concept as a new distributed Artificial Intelligence federation framework, which enables multi-party software co-development,” said Sablon.
The DTR event introduced multi-agent-based C2 on-demand construction to support interconnected and coalition C2 AI programs. The conference also emphasized the need for continuous loop oversight and modernization of AI archetypes.
On the opening day of the conference, Radha Plumb, the Pentagon’s chief digital and artificial intelligence officer, gave opening remarks. This was followed by a fireside chat with Michael Foster, chief data officer of U.S. Central Command, and Maynard Holiday, assistant secretary of defense for critical technologies, to discuss the benefits and challenges of joint AI.
“DTR provided an opportunity for the community to participate in a discussion on the future of AI integration in defense operations and implementing a networked force powered by scalable AI solutions,” said Sablon. “The discussions are of critical importance to national security, informing the development of responsible and ethical use of AI in defense operations.”
Speakers included experts, researchers and leaders from organizations like Google, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, IBM and CENTCOM.
