The U.S. Army is eager to integrate commercial AI algorithms from the private sector into its operations, and it hopes industry can also figure out how to address the inevitable security concerns that will come from the move.
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Young Bang — deputy assistant secretary of the Army for acquisition, logistics and technology — told an audience at the Amazon Web Services Summit in Washington, DC last week that it would be a waste of time for the Army to reinvent the systems that private industry has already created .
While the Army is inundated with data that today's machine learning systems can sift through, developing the algorithms to perform that work has already been done or is in progress, so Uncle Sam might as well save himself the trouble and take advantage of it, Bang said.
"We have tons of data … but we're not going to develop algorithms better than all of you," he said at the summit. "We want to use third-party generated AI algorithms as fast as you all build them."
