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Advantages Artificial Intelligence Gives In All-Domain Ops
by Jim Garamone, DOD News
April 15, 2021
U.S. Northern Command hosted a global information dominance
exercise and the results point to the tremendous advantages the
Defense Department would receive by applying machine learning and
artificial intelligence to all-domain information, Air Force Gen.
Glen D. VanHerck said yesterday.
VanHerck, who commands
NorthCom, detailed the results of the exercise during a virtual
meeting with the Defense Writers' Group.
All 11 combatant commands
participated in the exercise, which was based on a global scenario
involving two peer competitors. "What we were looking to do is show
the incredible value of information and how information can be used
today," he said.
This is especially true if commanders can
take information from all domains — undersea, space, cyberspace,
air, land, sea and share it through machine-learning artificial
intelligence, he said. This would serve to make data and information
available in a timely manner to produce space for decision makers.
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Autonomous system Origin prepares for practice run on August 20, 2020, during Project Convergence capstone event at Yuma Proving Ground, Arizona (U.S. Army photo by Pfc. Carlos Cuebas Fantauzzi)
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The decision makers could be at the tactical level all the way up to
the president of the United States, VanHerck said. "You can use it
in competition day-to-day; you can use it in crisis for
de-escalation and, obviously, in conflict for 'defeat or deny,' if
needed," he said.
The exercise pointed to the fact that some
of these capabilities are already available to commanders. "I did
[this exercise] with the intent to bring all the combatant commands
together to place a demand signal … on the department to move
quicker down the path of domain awareness, information dominance and
decision superiority," VanHerck said.
The general said the
capability in DOD is called Joint All-Domain Command and Control –
JADCC. "We need to go faster; we can't go slow for legacy processes
to take years to build capabilities," he said. "That was my intent:
to show that capabilities exist today to go down this path."
The exercise
really demonstrated the need for military global integration. "All
competition through conflict today is global in nature, and the
tools gave us the ability to collaborate with all the combatant
commands near real-time across all domains," he said.
VanHerck
also addressed the command's efforts to combat COVID-19. "We're down
to one hospital that we're currently embedded in right now in
Kingman, Arizona. When that mission ceases, we'll have no more
[military personnel health] providers embedded in local hospitals,"
he said. "I'm encouraged by that. That's a good trend that we're not
having the mission to provide support to local and state authorities
for the treatment of COVID patients."
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March 9, 2021 - Air Force 1st Lt. Cruz Williamson (left) takes notes from Capt. Heber Hoil (right), both medical-surgical nurses, assigned to U.S. Army North Task Force 46 during the final minutes of their morning shift change briefing at Kingman Regional Medical Center, Kingman, Arizona. U.S. Northern Command, through U.S. Army North, remains committed to providing flexible Department of Defense support to the whole-of-government COVID-19 response. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Joseph E. D. Knoch)
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Northern Command is
preparing to deploy more service members to provide the Federal
Emergency Management Agency with vaccine support. There are
currently 25 military teams with 3,562 personnel deployed at
multiple locations across 14 states providing vaccination support.
On March 30, 2021 ... the teams gave more than 60,000 vaccinations. "We just
went over 1.6 million vaccinations as we continue to move forward,"
the general said.
The command placed four more teams in the
first week of April 2021.
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