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June 10, 2020 By cs

DoD’s AI center seeks own acquisition authorities

Having its own mechanism for purchasing artificial intelligence will increase speed, according to the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center’s chief.

In the two years since its conception, the Pentagon’s Joint Artificial Intelligence Center has built out its staff from four people to 175 and now commands an annual budget of approximately $240 million.

And while the JAIC has been able to meet the Defense Department’s mission demands so far, its chief — Lt. Gen. Jack Shanahan — believes that the JAIC will need its own acquisition authorities to meet future technological demands.

“What I need honestly is our own acquisition authorities in the JAIC, I don’t have them right now,” Shanahan said Thursday, speaking at a virtual event held by AFCEA. “If I project another year or two forward, we are going to have to come up with different models.”

Keep reading this article at: https://www.nextgov.com/emerging-tech/2020/05/defense-departments-ai-center-seeks-own-acquisition-authorities/165657/

Filed Under: Government Contracting News Tagged With: acquisition strategy, AI, artificial intelligence, DoD, JAIC, Joint Artificial Intelligence Center. JAIC, Joint Artificial Intelligence Centr, other transaction authority

September 30, 2019 By cs

GSA, DoD turn to each other for help to improve AI capabilities

Call it a partnership of convenience. The Defense Department’s Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC) needed help in growing its technology capabilities. The General Services Administration wants to set up an AI Center of Excellence.

The two agencies announced on Sept. 25th they are partnering under the Centers of Excellence initiative to meet both goals. DoD’s JAIC becomes the fifth agency to take part in the Trump administration’s CoE program.

Lt. Gen. Jack Shanahan, director of the JAIC, said on Wednesday at the 2019 George T. Kalaris Intelligence Conference on Artificial Intelligence and National Security that GSA has been forward leaning in reaching out to offer the JAIC assistance.

“On the contracting and acquisition side of it, they have been incredibly helpful. In addition to trying to hire the right people, our other big challenge is contracting and acquisition and moving at the speed of agile methodology. That is a big part of it,” he said.

Keep reading this article at: https://federalnewsnetwork.com/it-modernization/2019/09/gsa-dod-turn-to-each-other-for-help-to-improve-ai-capabilities/

Filed Under: Government Contracting News Tagged With: AI, artificial intelligence, Center of Excellence, CoE, DoD, GSA, Joint Artificial Intelligence Center. JAIC

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