The Pentagon's Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Officer: One Year In

The head of the Department of Defense's (DoD's) Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO) is the senior official responsible for the acceleration of DoD's adoption of data, analytics, and artificial intelligence (AI) to generate decision advantage from the boardroom to the battlefield. This new office was established in February 2022—bringing together the authorities and resources of previously separate organizations, including the DoD Chief Data Officer, the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center, the Defense Digital Service, and the Advancing Analytics Office—and it reached full operational capability in June 2022.

To mark the one-year anniversary of the new office, Margie Palmieri, Deputy Chief Digital and AI Officer, joined Jim Mitre, director of RAND's International Security and Defense Policy Program, for a fireside chat about the status of the new organization and where DoD is on its journey to adopt data, analytics, and AI at scale.

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