Tuesday, April 22, 2025
Tuesday, April 22, 2025
Key Issues Overhauling the FAR Troops in South Korea Overland AI
The Space Force on Wednesday published its Data & Artificial Intelligence Fiscal Year 2025 Strategic Action Plan that aims to give the young, digitally focused service a roadmap for integrating existing and new technologies.
The service needs to “emphasize AI literacy” to effectively use such capabilities as a deterrent against Chinese or Russian aggression, acting Deputy Chief of Space Operations for Cyber and Data Col. Nathan Iven wrote in the strategy’s introduction.
“In this contested and congested domain,” he wrote, “superiority will be defined by our capability to integrate with interagency, allies and commercial partners to advance data capabilities, real-time analytics and emerging AI technology to outpace adversaries and maintain operational superiority.”
The strategy consists of four lines of effort:
The first line of effort will primarily work to create the bureaucracy to manage data and AI capabilities, uses and investments.
The second stresses the need to boost awareness and understanding among Space Force guardians of the data and AI available as well as how to use it. The effort also orders a framework for collaboration and competition for data and AI technologies and uses.
The third focuses on acquisition, evaluation and management of data and the technologies that exploit data.
Advancing the Unified Data Library -- the data-repository intended to consolidate a variety of information streams -- is a key component of this effort. The strategy calls for the Space Force to transition UDL into a program of record and identify new data sets and collection sensors to integrate.
The fourth line of effort sets up plans for working with partners -- including other services, the intelligence community and allies -- on addressing common needs, integrating data and sharing AI capabilities.
All of the activities laid out in the strategy are set to be completed by the end of the fiscal year.