Hicks signals cloud, AI as top priorities to increase 'speed of decision'

By Tony Bertuca / August 31, 2022 at 2:44 PM
Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks, who oversees many of the Pentagon's technology development and budgeting decisions, said today that among her top innovation priorities are enterprise cloud computing and artificial intelligence capabilities aimed at increasing the U.S. military's "speed of decision." Hicks, who spoke virtually at an event hosted by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, said DOD has upped its focus on prototyping in recent years. “And the job doesn’t stop with prototyping and experimentation,” she said. “More than...

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