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2023 Data, Analytics, and Artificial Intelligence Adoption Strategy-A

This document outlines the Department of Defense's strategy for accelerating the adoption of data, analytics, and artificial intelligence technologies. It discusses the strategic environment motivating this strategy, including challenges from strategic competitors. The strategy seeks to equip leaders at all levels with data and decision-making tools to strengthen deterrence and address national security challenges. It builds on previous foundational strategies and guidance for data and AI while guiding decentralized action across the DOD to realize the full potential of these technologies.

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2023 Data, Analytics, and Artificial Intelligence Adoption Strategy-A

This document outlines the Department of Defense's strategy for accelerating the adoption of data, analytics, and artificial intelligence technologies. It discusses the strategic environment motivating this strategy, including challenges from strategic competitors. The strategy seeks to equip leaders at all levels with data and decision-making tools to strengthen deterrence and address national security challenges. It builds on previous foundational strategies and guidance for data and AI while guiding decentralized action across the DOD to realize the full potential of these technologies.

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DEPAR TMENT OF DEFENSE

Data, Analytics, and Artificial


Intelligence Adoption Strategy
Accelerating Decision Advantage

Cleared for open publication ▪ June 27, 2023, ▪ Department of Defense ▪ Office of Prepublication and Security Review
TABLE OF
CONTENTS

DOD DATA, ANALYTICS, AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ADOPTION STRATEGY


FOREWORD 2

STRATEGIC ENVIRONMENT 3

KEY OUTCOMES 5

STRATEGIC GOALS 7

IMPLEMENTATION 14

CONCLUSION 17

APPENDIX A: QUALITY DATA 19

DOD DATA, ANALYTICS, AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ADOPTION STRATEGY


“America’s DNA is to innovate ...
and it has repeatedly enabled us to
drive and master the future
character of warfare.”
Kathleen H. Hicks
Deputy Secretary of Defense

DOD DATA, ANALYTICS, AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ADOPTION STRATEGY 1


FOREWORD
The Department of Defense (DoD) has been investing in artificial intelligence (AI) and responsibly fielding
data- and AI-enabled systems for over 60 years. Today, data, analytics, and AI technologies are
increasingly available to DoD Components and providing value to our service members.

Alongside industry’s advancements, DoD has for years made steady and swift improvements to its data
foundation and analytics capabilities: experimenting with AI through research and development,
integrating these technologies into business and warfighting functions, and laying the foundation for
their use at scale. As our investment, experimentation, and innovation continues and accelerates, our
task now is to drive the diffusion of these technologies across the enterprise.

Although our strategic competitors have ambitious aims for AI, the United States and its military possess
strong structural advantages in talent, warfighting experience, technology availability, and systems
integration — not to mention the values that guide everything we do. Equipping our people with the
tools and resources to make better decisions faster will increase the efficiency of DoD business
operations, make our warfighting capabilities and the people who command them more effective, and
create opportunities to employ novel operational concepts.

Responsibly and rapidly realizing the full promise of data, analytics, and AI is not the sole job of a single
organization or program; it’s on all of us. Providing DoD data as an enterprise resource, for instance,
requires more sharing and collaboration, not less. We seek an agile strategic approach that guides
decentralized action across DoD, inspires campaigns of learning, and leverages all our people, processes,
and enabling technologies.

As we have integrated analytics and AI applications, we have observed their benefits and learned crucial
lessons about their limitations. From the boardroom to the battlefield, more work remains, such as
improving data quality and network infrastructure. This Strategy serves as a guide for how we will
strengthen the organizational environment in which DoD deploys data, analytics, and AI capabilities for
enduring decision advantage.

Successfully defending the nation depends on our people. As we have always done, DoD will continue to
trust, support, empower, and invest in our people. We will not outpace our adversaries through
imitation. We will succeed by leading with our strengths: our democratic values, our diverse and open
society, our culture of ingenuity, our second-to-none innovation base, and our globe-spanning network
of Allies and partners. Together, we will harness data, analytics, and AI for the defense, security, and
prosperity of the American people and the world.

Kathleen H. Hicks
Deputy Secretary of Defense

DOD DATA, ANALYTICS, AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ADOPTION STRATEGY 2


STRATEGIC ENVIRONMENT
As the 2022 National Defense Strategy (NDS) makes clear, the United States possesses strengths that our
competitors cannot match, among them our diverse and open society, our culture of ingenuity, our innovation
base, and our globe-spanning network of Allies and partners. The Department leverages these strengths by
distributing authority, empowering leaders in our All-Volunteer Force to innovate at the edge and apply their own
judgment to combine old and new capabilities into superior operational concepts. The latest advancements in
data, analytics, and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies enable leaders to make better decisions faster, from the
boardroom to the battlefield. Therefore, accelerating the adoption of these technologies presents an
unprecedented opportunity to equip leaders at all levels of the Department with the data they need, and
harness the full potential of the decision-making power of our people.

The NDS also describes the need for the United States to sustain and strengthen deterrence against the People’s
Republic of China and other strategic competitors, which have widely communicated their intentions to field AI for
military advantage. Accelerating adoption of data, analytics, and AI technologies will enable enduring decision
advantage, allowing DoD leaders to prioritize investments to strengthen deterrence; link cross-cutting campaign
outcomes that counter our competitors’ coercive measures; and deploy continuous advancements in
technological capabilities to creatively address complex national security challenges in this decisive decade.

The urgency of the strategic environment and the scale at which the Department must operate are formidable.
The Department is well-positioned to excel because it has established a foundation of strategic guidance informed
by lessons learned from hands-on initiatives over the last several years.1 The Department’s first AI Strategy,
published in 2018, and revised Data Strategy, published in 2020, are two of these foundational efforts. The 2018
AI Strategy emphasized the need to build centralized infrastructure for AI development, to bridge AI technology
developments from the Department’s research and engineering communities, and to exercise international
leadership in military ethics and AI safety. The 2020 Data Strategy envisioned the Department as a data-centric
organization that can employ data supporting advanced capabilities for operational advantage and increased
efficiency, and oriented enterprise data management activities toward the VAULTIS goal framework.2

1. This guidance includes the DoD AI Strategy (2018), the DoD


Digital Modernization Strategy (2019), the DoD Data
Strategy (2020), the DoD Enterprise DevSecOps Strategy
Guide (2021), the DoD Software Modernization Strategy
(2022), the Trusted AI and Autonomy Critical Technology
Roadmap (2022), and the DoD Zero Trust Strategy (2022).

2. The 2020 DoD Data Strategy outlined the following seven


goals (VAULTIS): Visible – Consumers can locate the needed
data. Accessible – Consumers can retrieve the data.
Understandable – Consumers can find descriptions of data
to recognize the content, context, and applicability. Linked –
Consumers can exploit complementary data elements
through innate relationships. Trustworthy – Consumers can
be confident in all aspects of data for decision-making.
Interoperable – Consumers and producers have a common
representation and comprehension of data. Secure –
Consumers know that data is protected from unauthorized
use and manipulation.

DOD DATA, ANALYTICS, AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ADOPTION STRATEGY 3


Since these strategies were published, industry has produced more tools, platforms, and services for federated
environments, enabling more effective, decentralized data management, and analytics and AI development.
Adoption of these commercial offerings has allowed organizations within the Department to focus on
necessary internal transformation efforts and deploy government-owned tools, services, and platforms for
military use cases. The Department has matured collaboration with academia, industry, as well as Allies and
partners, and promoted best practices on data management, responsible AI, and AI readiness.
Experimentation and fielding have resulted in a deeper understanding of the degrees of data quality and
availability required to develop and deploy advanced analytics and AI capabilities at scale.

This DoD Data, Analytics, and AI Adoption Strategy builds upon and supersedes the 2018 AI Strategy and the
2020 Data Strategy to continue the Department’s digital transformation. The Department will continuously
seize opportunities presented by iterative technology advancements, at the speed of relevance and at the
scale of our global mission. To do so, the Department requires a unified approach across data, analytics, and AI
activities; an educated, empowered workforce skilled at incorporating commercial teams and tools; continued
advanced research and rapid experimentation; and effective integration with our Allies and partners. The
Department cannot succeed alone. Our integration of data, analytics, and AI technologies is nested within
broader U.S. government policy, the network of private sector and academic partners that promote
innovation, and a global ecosystem. We need a systematic, agile approach to data, analytics, and AI adoption
that is repeatable by all DoD Components. This strategy outlines our approach to improving the organizational
environment within which our people can deploy data, analytics, and AI capabilities for enduring decision
advantage.

DOD DATA, ANALYTICS, AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ADOPTION STRATEGY 4

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