LAUREN C. WILLIAMS
An AI-powered replacement for the repository of intelligence on foreign militaries is headed for the Pentagon’s classified network, where it will help pioneer new security techniques and become fully operational about a year later than planned, officials said.
“We expect” the Machine-assisted Analytic Rapid-repository System to be approved to run on the SIPRNet “within the next few weeks, actually,” said Doug Cossa, chief information officer of the Defense Intelligence Agency, speaking at an Intelligence and National Security Alliance virtual event on Tuesday.
MARS is to replace the Modernized Integrated Database, or MIDB, the Pentagon’s main repository for “foundational military intelligence”: the information collected by the intelligence community on other countries’ militaries and infrastructure. The DIA began working on MARS in 2018, adding new tools and AI-powered capabilities along the way, but it has only been accessible in certain locations. An agency spokesperson declined to say where.
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