By Lauren C. Williams
The Defense Department’s Joint Artificial Intelligence Center feels the pressure to move faster as tight defense budgets loom in future years.
Lt. Gen. Michael Groen, the JAIC’s director, said budget constraints in current and potentially future fiscal years will only increase the department’s need for enterprise-level artificial intelligence capabilities.
“In an era of tightening budgets and a focus on squeezing out things that are legacy or not important in the budget, the productivity gains and the efficiency gains that AI can bring to the department, especially through the business process transformation, actually becomes an economic necessity,” Groen told reporters April 9.
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JAIC director: With flat budgets, turn to AI to save money 5 hours ago U.S. Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Michael Groen, director of the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center, and Robert O. Work, National Security Commission of Artificial Intelligence vice chair, speak April 9 during a press briefing at the Pentagon. (Staff Sgt. Brittany Chase/U.S. Air Force) WASHINGTON Artificial intelligence can provide vital savings for the Pentagon in the face of flat or decreasing budgets, the director of the department’s top AI office said Friday. Lt. Gen. Michael Groen, leader of the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center, promoted the efficiencies of AI, particularly for business systems, on the same day the Biden administration announced a topline defense budget proposal of $715 billion, which amounts to an overall decrease, when adjusted for inflation.
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