Pentagon to test how generative AI would perform in fight with China
Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Officer Radha Plumb at the Pentagon, Washington, D.C., Dec. 11, 2024. U.S. Air Force / Senior Airman Madelyn Keech
In the next 90 days, U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, working with contractors and other Pentagon officers, will take a hard look at how generative AI tools similar to ChatGPT could help commanders make battlefield decisions more quickly against high-tech adversaries like China.
“Our goal is to test in the INDOPACOM [area of responsibility] with some specific Navy use cases over the next 90 days, a prototype between Anduril, Palantir AI solutions to try…drive down the time down and increase the decision space for commanders,” Radha Plumb, the head of the Defense Department’s Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office, or CDAO, told Defense One on Tuesday.
A senior industry official familiar with the CDAO effort described the new project as not a single new product or tool, but a framework between a consortium of next-generation technology companies and commanders to better understand how they might use generative AI in operations—and then either building what they need or refining tools that already exist.
