DoD AI Taskforce to Develop Guidelines and Access Infrastructure Requirement for GenAI

The U.S. Department of Defense’s (DoD) Task Force Lima aims to develop guidelines and assess infrastructure requirements for emerging capabilities like artificial intelligence (AI), according to Radha Plumb, Pentagon's Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO).

The department is currently developing guidelines to prioritize the use cases for initiating their experimentation journey in AI adoption. This effort also aims to establish the necessary guidelines and guardrails as they commence testing and deploying generative AI technologies.

“That's really what's going to let us better understand and realize the promise of generative AI. These generative AI models are hugely infrastructure-dependent. They depend on a tremendous amount of compute, which has energy requirements. They depend on, for DoD, thinking about cloud versus on-premises compute capabilities and what the transport looks like,” Plumb said during an event at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, according to Nextgov.

Earlier this year, Task Force Lima announced its plans to introduce a "virtual sandbox" platform, which will enable military personnel to responsibly explore approved generative AI tools, offering potential enhancements to their operational capabilities.

According to Navy Capt. M. Xavier Lugo, who serves as the CDAO’s Task Force Lima Mission Commander, his team received approximately 230 potential applications of generative AI which were assessed for the Department of Defense (DOD).