The funding aligns with the Defense Department’s AI efforts, notably the AI and Data Acceleration initiative announced last year by Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks.
"So if you don’t have an integration layer like that, then you have to go find all of the data sources yourself. This is something we don’t have yet in the department,” Lt. Gen. Michael Groen told Breaking Defense.
“Cybersecurity must be built into system design, and the human defender should be included early on in cyber defense engineering and programmatic priorities for both system usability and training,” according to the Pentagon's chief tester.
"It's getting that data talent into the combatant command, knowing that it's going to be there so that they can begin understanding what they have and what's within the art of the possible there," Dave Spirk, the Pentagon's chief data officer, said.