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September 10, 2020
News
By DAVID VERGUN , DOD News
Defense.gov

DOD Officials Describe Modernization Priorities That Will Benefit Warfighters

When it comes to working with security partners, there's an effort now to focus on multi-domain operations to improve teamwork in regards to air operations, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency's new director said.

The Defense Department's artificial intelligence community has moved from being "AI pioneers to being AI practitioners," the acting director of the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center said.

Artificial intelligence is significant beyond the Defense Department, involving partners and allies, the acting undersecretary of defense for research and engineering said.

Accelerating AI and delivering tangible solutions for the warfighter are imperative to preserve the nation's strategic military advantage, the DOD chief information officer said.

President Donald J. Trump signed an executive order that allows employers to defer withholding Social Security taxes.

Eighteen years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the Defense Department honors the memories of those who died at the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and in Shanksville, Pa.

Using the resources of the federal government and the U.S. private sector, Operation Warp Speed will accelerate the testing, supply, development, and distribution of safe and effective vaccines, therapeutics, and diagnostics to counter COVID-19 by January 2021.

The Defense Department can use the same methods that were used to bolster the war effort during World War II to advance artificial intelligence today, DOD officials say.

The National Defense Strategy provides a clear road map for the Department of Defense to meet the challenges posed by a re-emergence of long-term strategic competition with China and Russia. The National Defense Strategy acknowledges an increasingly complex global security environment, characterized by overt challenges to the free and open international order.

Artificial intelligence can benefit society, but in the hands of U.S. adversaries it can also pose a national security threat, Air Force Gen. John E. Hyten, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said.