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In 2020, the Department of Defense (DoD) became the first military in the world to adopt ethical principles for the use of AI in military operations. The CDAO leads DoD efforts to operationalize its commitment to Responsible AI (RAI) by creating policy, tools, and training for DoD components.

The CDAO enables the DoD’s adoption of data, analytics, and AI by setting formal standards, delivering best practices, building templates and tools, and defining acquisition pathways to deliver capabilities directly to DoD users.

2025年3月21日 · Margie Palmieri, the longtime senior CDAO official who’s temporarily heading the office until the Trump administration names a new chief, sent an email to her colleagues Thursday that provides insight into how implementation of President Donald Trump’s DOGE directive across the federal government is impacting the military’s artificial ...

3 天之前 · When CDAO started running GIDE exercises a few years ago, she said, it was “a big surprise” to the Defense Department, which has traditionally focused on delivering complex new systems that ...

2025年3月25日 · A month later, the CDAO announced it would be holding a recompete for Advana followed by announcing a 10-year multi-vendor solicitation worth up to $15 billion in September, Breaking Defense reported.

2024年11月18日 · The CDAO is the Principal Staff Assistant (PSA) and advisor to the Secretary of Defense for all matters relating to DoD adoption and integration of data, analytics, and AI capabilities to generate competitive advantage.

2024年12月11日 · CDAO leverages relevant dual-use commercial technologies and novel operating models to enable all DoD organizations to quickly develop, test, integrate and deliver secure, data, analytic, and AI...

2025年3月26日 · Steven Morani, acting under secretary of defense for sustainment at DOD, signed the memo on March 13, directing the CDAO Component Acquisition Executive, or CAE, to submit within 30 days drafts of ...

2024年4月9日 · – In a ceremony held today at the Pentagon, Dr. Radha Plumb was officially sworn in as the Department of Defense (DoD) Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Officer (CDAO). Secretary of...