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Pentagon

DoD Industrial Base Office Wants To Enable DIB Use Of Artificial Intelligence

By Cal Biesecker

Wednesday, May 22nd, 2024

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DoD Industrial Base Office Wants To Enable DIB Use Of Artificial Intelligence

An aerial view of the Pentagon. (U.S. Navy Photo)

The Defense Department’s office charged with monitoring the health of the defense industrial base (DIB) is seeking public input on how it can enable the vendors, and their suppliers, that provide it with products and services to keep adopting artificial intelligence for defense applications and systems. The feedback will help DoD understand what resources the DIB needs to integrate AI into defense systems and to help the Office of Industrial Base Resilience’s policy and analysis shop develop a Trusted AI…

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