Former Army official stepping into role of CDAO

Doug Matty, former director of the Army's AI Task Force, is now the Defense Department's new Chief Digital and AI Officer, Inside Defense has confirmed.

Matty previously served as Army Reserve Brig. Gen. Matthew Easley’s deputy director when Army Futures Command first stood up the artificial intelligence task force in 2018 to be the service’s arm in support of DOD’s Joint Artificial Intelligence Center. He was elevated to the director role in September 2020, where he served until December 2022.

News of Matty becoming CDAO was first reported by Defense Scoop.

Matty succeeds former CDAO Radha Plumb who left the post in January.