Artificial Intelligence (AI) has an unlimited number of applications across nearly all industries. AI enhances efficiency, automates tasks, improves decision-making, and drives innovation, ultimately leading to improved outcomes and solutions for complex problems. For these reasons, AI has already been incorporated widely on the battlefield. Capitalizing on advances in AI in the nascent stages of its defense and national security applications will compound and therefore correlate with strategic and tactical successes into the future.
AI uses in defense and national security include but are not limited to the following:
- Shortening the kill chain – this includes the identification of the target, dispatching of forces to the target, the initiation of attack, and the target’s destruction.
- Improving targeting systems for both offensive and defensive weaponry.
- Improving teaming through communication and equipment improvements.
- Streamlining training for the United States Intelligence Community (USIC) and military, from language learning to combat simulations.
- Diagnosing and treating combat injuries and diseases on the battlefield.
- Wargaming improvements.
AI also has a range of practical applications in non-defense specific sectors that have clear defense and national security-related applications. These include but are not limited to healthcare, logistics, manufacturing, and education.
Challenges to AI Implementation in Defense and National Security
The US Government faces challenges related to implementing AI at scale with the need for speed, agility, learning, and responsibility, especially as our adversaries work to integrate these same technologies to gain an advantage. In June 2023, the DoD released the Data, Analytics, and Artificial Intelligence Adoption Strategy. The document specifies how AI should be implemented through tools such as an “AI Hierarchy of Needs” and “balancing tradeoffs with shared services.” As a part of the DoD, the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO), created in February 2022, leads the implementation of this strategy.
Rapid breakthroughs in AI can lead to incompatibilities between the public and private sectors’ capabilities. Creating cohesive strategies to integrate the needs of both will benefit all parties involved and spur innovation.
How can Tier Tech International, Inc. Help?
Navigating AI is a challenging endeavor, but Tier Tech International, Inc. (TTI) offers processes that will assist in streamlining the identification of impediments to AI adoption and integration in the private and public sectors. TTI’s Strategic Design Approaches (SDA) have helped a range of government institutions and companies in dealing with complex challenges in the short-, medium-, and long term. These methodologies should be leveraged in support of our Research and Development (R&D) partners for future strategy and planning efforts within the federal government, especially in situations where the recommendation of actions and analytical rigor are required. Specifically, TTI’s Opportunity Analysis (OA) will help identify where AI can be most helpful and used most efficiently.
