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DOD needs to invest more in its IT to integrate autonomous tech - report

Fedscoop: Autonomy and artificial intelligence may be integral to the Defense Department’s Third Offset Strategy, but making those technologies useful will require IT investments to integrate them into defense systems, a new report says.

“Both the DOD and the Intelligence Community, they are investing in these technologies. So artificial intelligence is a big priority area, machine learning, all these technologies,” Matthew Hummer, director of analytics at big-data and analytics firm Govini, told FedScoop. “But they haven’t really done a good job of integrating it into the current Distributed Common Ground Systems. And that’s because those systems really need pretty much a big overhaul to be able to do that.”

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