New Navy-Marine AI and data strategy coming this fall, seeking rapid adaptation for wartime

The U.S. Navy is drowning in data, but it can’t turn that intelligence into new tactics or tech updates fast enough for a 21st century war, warned the new Chief Data and AI Officer for the Department of the Navy Stuart Wagner. But, he said, a forthcoming strategy for “data and AI weaponization” aims to accelerate all that.

How? In part, he said, by automating security classification procedures, and in some cases, bypassing the laborious Authority To Operate (ATO) process to get the right data to the right algorithms ASAP.

“We need to spin this really fast,” Wagner told the Hampton Roads chapter of AFCEA Tuesday. “Our strategy principally … is focused on expediting and making this easier.”

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