Thursday, September 12, 2024
Thursday, September 12, 2024
This Tuesday INSIDER Daily Digest has news on artificial intelligence and more.
The launching of the Defense Department's chief digital and artificial intelligence office's Open Data and Analytics Government-owned Interoperable Repositories (Open DAGIR) initiative was the office's recognition that the government’s typical practice of selling software capabilities in vertically integrated stacks wouldn’t produce the best results for DOD:
DOD innovators wrestling with bureaucracy, cultural barriers
The Defense Department's aversion toward risk and change, coupled with its tendency to cling to traditional acquisition processes, are its biggest barriers to adopting new technologies and capabilities, according to Pentagon innovation leaders.
A new Accreditation of GEOINT AI Models, or AGAIM, will evaluate the "methodology and robustness" of an artificial intelligence model's development and test procedures:
NGA piloting AI model validation system
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency is piloting a program to accredit artificial intelligence models to create a unified validation system across the agency, according to director Vice Adm. Frank Whitworth.
A $200 million "administrative settlement" between the State Department and RTX will resolve 750 violations of the Arms Export Control Act and International Traffic in Arms Regulations:
RTX to pay $200M fine for allegedly exporting defense tech to China
RTX, formerly known as Raytheon Technologies, has agreed to pay a $200 million civil penalty for allegedly exporting U.S. defense technology and intellectual property to foreign countries, including China, according to a new State Department announcement.
Defense Department officials aren't paying full price for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter just yet:
Pentagon withholding $5 million per tail as Lockheed delivers incomplete F-35s
The Defense Department is withholding about $5 million for each F-35 Joint Strike Fighter delivered with a truncated version of the Technology Refresh-3 software upgrade, a spokesperson with the F-35 Joint Program Office told Inside Defense.
In case you missed it last week, here's our deep dive into the Pentagon's Rapid Defense Experimentation Reserve program, now available to all:
DOD officials defend rapid experimentation projects at key tech demo
EDINBURGH, IN -- The Rapid Defense Experimentation Reserve may not appear to reflect the first word in its acronym to Senate appropriators who have criticized RDER for failing to transition more weapon systems to the battlefield, but senior Pentagon officials suggest that lawmakers looking to cut the program don’t fully appreciate RDER’s challenges given the slowness of the traditional acquisition and budgeting cycle.