30 September 2024

Army's AI Strategy Sprints Forward With 500-Day Plan

Laura Heckmann

The Army’s ongoing effort to accelerate the secure adoption of artificial intelligence wrapped up an initial 100-day sprint paving the way for its next objective: a 500-day plan to operationalize it.

Announced in March, the Army’s AI Implementation Plan kicked off with a 100-day risk assessment sprint to lay the foundation for “a single, coherent approach to AI across the Army, aligning multiple, complex efforts within 100 and 500-day execution windows” and establish a baseline to “continuously modernize AI” and contribute “solutions as technologies rapidly evolve,” an Army release stated.

Young Bang, principal deputy assistant secretary of the Army for acquisition, logistics and technology, said the 100-day window is complete and being used to build the plan’s next installment.

“The 100-day plan really looked at, ‘How do we set the conditions around accelerating AI adoption for the Army?” including risk associated with third-party vendor algorithms and creating a pathway for industry to work with the Army’s secure network, he said at the National Defense Industrial Association Michigan Chapter’s Ground Vehicle Systems Engineering and Technology Symposium and Modernization Update in August.


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