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“So any business that we want to do on behalf of the department, that’s our place to duke it out, to collaborate, to really get the feedback from all the different stakeholders we need in the organization before we bring that to the deputy," Margaret Palmieri, deputy CDAO, said Tuesday.
The CDAO team merges major Defense Department’s tech efforts, bringing together a range of DoD innovation leaders.
"We want to make sure, of course, that the directive still reflects the views of the department and the way the department should be thinking about [autonomous] weapon systems,” Michael Horowitz told Breaking Defense in an exclusive interview.
The Joint Artificial Intelligence Center, Defense Digital Service and ADVANA teams will be officially subsumed into the new CDAO office at the start of the month.
The Defense Department’s data lakes are expensive, manpower intensive, and time-consuming to maintain. Instead, the military should adopt industry standard data-brokering solutions.