Winning the National Security AI Competition: A Practical Guide for Government and Industry Leaders

© The Author(s), under exclusive license to APress Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2023

C. Whitlock, F. StricklandWinning the National Security AI Competitionhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8814-6_8

8. Leading the Technology

Chris Whitlock¹   and Frank Strickland²

(1)

Colorado Springs, CO, USA

(2)

Centreville, VA, USA

 

“I could spend an enormous amount of time meeting with technology vendors. I receive dozens of emails per week from these companies.”

—Director, Departmental Analytics and AI Center

“…we will “free the data” by removing its current dependencies on IC [Intelligence Community] element applications, systems, and databases…”

—Intelligence Community Information Environment Data Strategy, 2017-2021

“The government lags behind the commercial ...