About JAICTo derive maximum value from AI applications throughout the Department, the JAIC will operate across the full AI application lifecycle, with an emphasis on near-term execution and AI adoption. This enables consistency of approach, technology, and tools for delivery-focused AI projects. The work of the JAIC will complement the efforts of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), DoD laboratories, and other entities focused on longer-term technology creation and future AI research and development.Although its primary focus is execution, the JAIC will have an important role in synchronizing DoD AI activities across all DoD Components. This is essential for avoiding duplication and excess cost, fostering the sharing of lessons, and establishing the new enterprise approach. The JAIC will work with DoD Components to develop a governance framework and standards for AI development and delivery and collaborate within DoD, across government, and with industry, academia, and U.S. allies and partners to strengthen partnerships, highlight critical needs, solve problems of urgent operational significance, and adapt AI technologies responsibly for DoD missions.Joint Artificial Intelligence CenterJAIC_0b41e2b0-30d2-11e9-bd88-e28acd61b4c6_0b41e3dc-30d2-11e9-bd88-e28acd61b4c6To accelerate the delivery of AI-enabled capabilities, scale the Department-wide impact of AI, and synchronize DoD AI activities to expand Joint Force advantages._0b41e472-30d2-11e9-bd88-e28acd61b4c6CapabilitiesRapidly deliver AI-enabled capabilities to address key missions, strengthening current military advantages and enhancing future AI research and development efforts with mission needs, operational outcomes, user feedback, and data_0b41e4ea-30d2-11e9-bd88-e28acd61b4c61PrototypesIdentify and deliver prototypes._0b41e56c-30d2-11e9-bd88-e28acd61b4c61.1The JAIC will work with teams across DoD to identify, prioritize, and select new AI mission initiatives systematically, and then execute an initial sequence of cross-functional use cases that demonstrate value and spur momentum. These “National Mission Initiatives” or “NMIs” involve deploying AI across the Joint Force for a select set of high-priority, pressing operational or business reform challenges. NMIs will be executed by cross-functional teams that are composed of both JAIC personnel as well as other subject matter experts from across the Department on a rotational basis. Additionally, the JAIC will work closely with individual components to help identify, shape, and accelerate their component-specific AI deployments, called “Component Mission Initiatives” or “CMIs.”FoundationEstablish a common foundation for scaling AI’s impact across DoD, leading strategic data acquisition and introducing unified data stores, reusable tools, frameworks and standards, and cloud and edge services_0b41e5ee-30d2-11e9-bd88-e28acd61b4c62ScalingScaling successful prototypes._0b41e670-30d2-11e9-bd88-e28acd61b4c62.1Military DepartmentsMilitary ServicesTechnology CompaniesConsulting FirmsAcademiaDoD LaboratoriesGovernment LaboratoriesFederally Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDC)The JAIC will work with the Military Departments and Services and other organizations to scale use cases throughout the Department in a manner that aligns with and leverages enterprise cloud adoption. It will establish a common foundation for scaling AI’s impact across DoD, including shared data, reusable tools, frameworks and standards, and cloud and edge services. It will guide training programs across the Department to ensure broad access to the talent necessary to scale AI applications. When partners are needed to scale AI applications, the JAIC will forge the right partnerships to execute NMIs and advise the Military Departments and Services or other DoD Components on building similar partnerships to execute their CMIs. These partners may include technology companies, consulting firms, academia, DoD laboratories, other government laboratories, Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDC), and other entities, as appropriate.FacilitationFacilitate AI planning, policy, governance, ethics, safety, cybersecurity, and multilateral coordination_0b41e6f2-30d2-11e9-bd88-e28acd61b4c63SupportProvide ongoing support._0b41e77e-30d2-11e9-bd88-e28acd61b4c63.1Military DepartmentsMilitary ServicesDoD TeamsThe JAIC will strengthen the efforts of the Military Departments and Services and other independent teams across DoD as they continue to develop and execute new AI mission initiatives. This includes introducing processes and systems to improve, assess, and sustain AI systems and solutions continuously across the enterprise.Learning & ExpertiseAttract and cultivate a world-class AI team to supply trusted subject matter expertise on AI capability delivery and to create new accelerated learning experiences in AI across DoD at all levels of professional education and training._0b41e800-30d2-11e9-bd88-e28acd61b4c64Learning & ImplementationShare lessons and merge research with operations._0b41e896-30d2-11e9-bd88-e28acd61b4c64.1Both NMI- and CMI-type efforts will include selecting commercial and academic partners for prototypes and employing standardized processes with respect to areas such as data, testing and evaluation, and cybersecurity. The JAIC will use lessons learned from these initial pilots to establish new processes and systems that will be repeatable across additional projects. Given the rapidly changing nature of adversaries and situations, and the rapid pace of change in enabling technologies, JAIC execution will prioritize dissolving the traditional sharp division between research and operations. The insertion of new technologies into complex work systems changes the nature of the work, including new forms of brittleness and error, and uncovers new challenges at the same time that it improves the work in other respects. Therefore, insights must transition immediately to the research venue, and research must benefit by the immediate involvement of end users in the technology development process.2018-12-312019-02-14https://media.defense.gov/2019/Feb/12/2002088963/-1/-1/1/SUMMARY-OF-DOD-AI-STRATEGY.PDFOwenAmburOwen.Ambur@verizon.net