DIA centralizes AI efforts with Digital Modernization Accelerator

(Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. – Breaking Defense) After a year-long push to rationalize its previously uncoordinated AI efforts, the Defense Intelligence Agency is institutionalizing its new, more centralized and more efficient approach, the DIA’s chief AI officer said Thursday. “One of the things that we were serious about was getting out capabilities quickly,” said Maj. Gen. Robert Kinney at SCSP’s ai+intelligence conference here. “[When] I talk to the team … I reinforce this frequently: I want you to move like somebody’s on your heels, and they’re about ready to eat you.”. Those reforms include a new “hub-and-spoke” organization centered around the Digital Modernization Accelerator (DMA), created on March 1 as the permanent incarnation of the ad hoc Task Force Sabre, Kinney said. Nicknamed the “Maverick Accelerator,” it is already helping the DIA consolidate scarce expertise and push out technical support — not just to the agency’s own directorates, Kinney said, but also to the four-star theater Combatant Commands around the world. – DIA centralizes AI efforts with Digital Modernization Accelerator – Breaking Defense