WARFIGHTING
Warfighters have the AI-enabled capabilities necessary to train, fight, and win.
INTELLIGENCE
maximizing the utility of intelligence data to achieve warfighting.
ENTERPRISE
executing the department-wide deployment of all AI tools and agents.

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Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office

Accelerating DoW adoption of data, analytics, and artificial intelligence (AI) from the boardroom to the
battlefield to enable decision advantage.
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CDAO News - Updates on innovations and developments

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Pathway to AI Readiness

Critical Technology Areas

The Office of the Under Secretary for Research and Engineering's Critical Technology Areas are essential to addressing the United States' most pressing national security challenges.

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Tradewinds - Technology solutions for DoD challenges

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Programs and Projects

Achieving an “AI-first” warfighting force by executing a set of “Pace-Setting Projects” (PSP)
that will demonstrate the accelerated pace of execution, focus, and ethos we need to stay ahead.

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Swarm Forge

Swarm Forge

Competitive mechanism to iteratively discover, test, and scale novel ways of fighting with and against AI-enabled capabilities.
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Agent Network

Agent Network

Unleashing AI agent development and experimentation for AI-enabled battle management and decision support.
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Ender’s Foundry

Ender’s Foundry

Accelerating AI-enabled simulation capabilities to ensure we stay ahead of AI-enabled adversaries.
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Open Arsenal

Open Arsenal

Accelerating the TechINT-to-capability development pipeline, turning intel into weapons in hours not years.
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Project Grant

Project Grant

Enabling transformation of deterrence from static postures and speculation to dynamic pressure with interpretable results.
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GenAI.mil

GenAI.mil

Putting America’s world-leading AI models directly in the hands of our civilian and military personnel, at all classification levels to empower AI experimentation and transformation.
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Enterprise Agents

Enterprise Agents

Building a playbook for rapid and secure AI agent development and deployment to transform enterprise workflows.
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Maven Smart System

Maven Smart System

A tactical AI platform built to analyze and fuse data sensor data for real-time object detection, tracking, and decision support in combat operations.
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War Data Platform

War Data Platform

Designed to focus on and expand the core data integration layer; providing standardized data access that streamlines secure, rapid development and integration of agentic AI and other applications Dept.-wide.