The Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure contract, known as JEDI, has been bogged down in litigation for years. The Pentagon is finding ways to move on without it.
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They met for the nascent center’s second Partnership for Defense, or PfD, dialogue.
Through the recurring gatherings, JAIC officials noted Wednesday, “like-minded defense partners” link up to share “policies, approaches, challenges, and solutions in adopting AI-enabled capabilities” and help improve cooperation and interoperability between their militaries.
The first of these sessions, held last September, honed in on producing and executing defense-centered ethics principles. The Defense Department unveiled its own slice of AI ethical principles months earlier, which JAIC officials are now working to apply across the entire enterprise and embed in emerging tools.
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Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. on January 14, 2021 at 4:30 PM
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WASHINGTON: “When you talk about defense spending, there are very few places that you can spend money and actually get a positive fiscal return on your investment,” notes Lt. Gen. Mike Groen, director of the Pentagon’s Joint Artificial Intelligence Center. “AI has places where you can actually spend money to make money.”
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But before any given organization in the Defense Department can reap the benefits of AI, Groen told me in an exclusive interview, it has to do two things:
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While the media has you concerned over Donald Trump s threat to veto the annual military budget, there are bigger implications for the controversial NDAA 2021.
The U.S. Senate recently voted 84 to 13 in favor of the 2021 version of the annual military budget, the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). The Senate s vote follows a 335 to 78 vote by the House of Representatives. Despite promises of a veto from Donald Trump, the bill currently has a veto-proof two-thirds majority in both the House and Senate. Trump has until December 23rd to decide if he try to veto the $740.5 billion bill.
Most of the media discussion about the 2021 NDAA has revolved around two issues:
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky speaks during a Tuesday news conference at the Capitol in Washington. (Sarah Silbiger/Pool via AP)
WASHINGTON (CN) Setting the stage for a final veto showdown to close out President Donald Trump’s single term, the Republican-led Senate voted 84-13 Friday in favor of a $740 billion defense-spending bill.
Trump is expected to veto the bill over various faults he finds in it, chief among them a provision forming a federally backed commission devoted to renaming and removing military installations named after darlings of the Confederacy. Trump has called the maneuver an affront to the nation’s history.