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Brad D. Williams on March 10, 2021 at 4:50 PM
Then-Brig. Gen. Michael Groen works on a Marine Corps intelligence-sharing system.
WASHINGTON: What’s the most significant challenge to getting the Defense Department ready for AI? It’s the idea held by many that “AI is some future thing,” said Lt. Gen. Michael Groen, head of the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center. AI is already here, he said. “If we want AI to be our future, then AI has to be our present.”
Groen currently leads to the DoD’s JAIC, which he characterized as a “do tank” in a town of think tanks. JAIC currently leads implementation and integration of AI across all departments of the DoD. Groen admitted it’s “an enormous challenge” and that it “takes time to turn this big defense ship.” One of JAIC’s goals is to “get the transformation to occur faster, accelerate it.”
Abbie Shull: Here s how to find out if you can get the COVID-19 vaccine at JBLM
News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash. 2/22/2021 Abbie Shull, The News Tribune (Tacoma, Wash.)
Feb. 22 If you get your health care through the Department of Defense, you might be able to get the COVID-19 vaccine through Madigan Army Medical Center on Joint Base Lewis-McChord.
Madigan is following the DOD s vaccine rollout plan and is currently in phase 1B, which means TRICARE patients over 75 years old, health care workers and military personnel who are preparing to deploy outside the United States can get the vaccine.
Those who qualify for the vaccine at Madigan can go online to make an appointment or call the Madigan COVID-19 vaccine hotline: 253-968-4744.