Jonathan Elliott is the Acting Director of the AI Rapid Capability Cell (AIRCC) for the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO). His office is responsible for leading DoD adoption of Frontier AI and providing access to these new technologies through experimentation with warfighters.
Mr. Elliott previously served as the Director of Assurance & Assessment (A2) at CDAO where he led development of new technologies to ensure AI was operationally effective and met warfighter needs. He has more than a decade of experience in unmanned, autonomous, and AI systems. Mr. Elliott was Principal Project Lead and Group Lead at MITRE; there he led the federally funded research and development center’s efforts to develop AI Assurance methodologies and, since 2019, worked to stand up the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC), now the CDAO. In addition, he served as Chief Engineer for Autonomy, Artificial Intelligence Test (AAIT) Technology, at the Test Resource Management Center (TRMC). In that role, he oversaw development of new science and technology tools to test AI and autonomy. He led multiple large T&E efforts related to AI and autonomy programs and helped architect the T&E of AI Framework, currently implemented at the CDAO.
Mr. Elliott has M.S. and B.S. degrees in aerospace engineering from the University of Maryland.