The Pentagon's Joint Artificial Intelligence Center is in the early stages of building a "common foundation" of tools the military services can access to develop AI capabilities, like Apple's App Store or Amazon Web Services' Marketplace, according to a Defense Department official. The center, known as the JAIC, began operations in December as the focal point of DOD's AI strategy . The JAIC has four national mission initiatives, or NMIs, underway in the areas of predictive maintenance, humanitarian assistance and...