The US military just created an "AI Rapid Capabilities Cell" "focused on accelerating Department of Defense adoption of next-generation artificial intelligence such as Generative AI (GenAI)."
"The AI Rapid Capabilities Cell will lead efforts to accelerate and scale the deployment of cutting-edge AI-enabled tools, to include Frontier models, across the Department of Defense."
The AI Rapid Capabilities Cell will replace Task Force Lima, the Department of Defense generative AI initiative that I didn't know existed until reading this press release about how it won't exist any more. Task Force Lima identified "pilots" and the AI Rapid Capabilities Cell will execute the pilots. These are:
"Warfighting: Command and Control and decision support, operational planning, logistics, weapons development and testing, uncrewed and autonomous systems, intelligence activities, information operations, and cyber operations,"
"Enterprise management: financial systems, human resources, enterprise logistics and supply chain, health care information management, legal analysis and compliance, procurement processes, and software development and cyber security,"
Whew, got that?
Remember a decade or two ago when we futurists debated whether AI would ever be used in weapons? And here we are, watching AI get thoroughly integrated into the military, lol. Not just a weapons system here or there, but every aspect of the military. Command and Control and decision support, operational planning, logistics, weapons development and testing, uncrewed and autonomous systems, intelligence activities, information operations, cyber operations, financial systems, human resources, enterprise logistics and supply chain, health care information management, legal analysis and compliance, procurement processes, and software development and cyber security.
CDAO and DIU launch new effort focused on accelerating DoD adoption of AI capabilities
