announced plans<\/a> to integrate OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT and xAI\u2019s Grok into the system.<\/p>\nThe platform now has more than 1.2 million discrete users, Jacob Glassman, deputy assistant secretary of defense for science and technology foundations in the R&E directorate, said Thursday at the Box Federal Summit, produced by FedScoop.<\/p>\n
Pentagon leaders have touted the technology as a way to free up workers\u2019 time and boost productivity.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is also a fascinating time because like it or not, we have this workforce constraint, we had this [Deferred Resignation Program, or DRP] and all that. That creates a crisis. We lost some really, really good people. That\u2019s just a fact, and the downward pressure is not going away. But at the same time, we supplied the foundation of AI with GenAI.mil,\u201d Glassman said.<\/p>\n
He noted that the Chief Digital and AI Office (CDAO), which falls under the R&E undersecretariat, has started releasing agents that have been developed with the technology.<\/p>\n
\u201cHere we are two weeks later, we have 100,000 agents that have been built in that,\u201d Glassman said.<\/p>\n
The rollout is happening amid a precarious ceasefire in the U.S. war with Iran, dubbed Operation Epic Fury, which has put more work on the DOD\u2019s plate, he noted.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are now at a point where we are in a constrained environment \u2026 [a] highly pressurized environment because the conflict in Iran is touching most of us in the department almost every single day,\u201d Glassman said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWell, now we have agentic AI, we have these agents that we\u2019re creating, we have generative AI,\u201d he said. \u201cWhen you talk about the adoption of these technologies \u2026 this is making us incredibly more efficient, incredibly more agile, and it\u2019s really allowing us to focus, right? I\u2019m really excited. It sounds like kind of a weird nuance thing, but we\u2019re supplying the tool to our workforce. We\u2019re encouraging them to use it, they\u2019re pressurized to use it, and they\u2019re innovating on their own.\u201d<\/p>\n
As an example, he shared an anecdote about a report that needed to be delivered to Congress, but the team responsible for producing it had fewer people available to help generate it.<\/p>\n
\u201cI said, \u2018use GenAI.mil, do the best you can,\u2019 because I\u2019m not going to go back to Congress and say, \u2018No, I\u2019m not going to give you a report.\u2019 I\u2019m going to do the best we can. Sure enough, they came back to me about a week later and said \u2026 \u2018not only did we generate the report, [but] this is the best report we\u2019ve written in the past five years.\u2019 So I\u2019m like, this is incredible, right?\u201d Glassman recalled. He didn\u2019t identify which report he was referring to.\u00a0<\/p>\n
On the sidelines of Thursday\u2019s conference, Glassman told DefenseScoop that department leaders are \u201ccattle-driving, as we say, everything in GenAI.mil.\u201d<\/p>\n
The technology can perform drudge work, saving hours of service members\u2019 time and freeing them up for training and other important tasks, he said.<\/p>\n
Glassman told DefenseScoop that he uses GenAI.mil in his job \u201cevery single day.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t recall once being like \u2018wow, shucks, I really wish I hadn\u2019t gone in and used GenAI.mil during this use case,\u2019 right? I have yet to have that experience. I\u2019ve been using it for five months now,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
He suggested that it\u2019s important for personnel and senior leaders in the R&E directorate to set an example for the rest of the department when it comes to the integration of artificial intelligence capabilities into their workflows.<\/p>\n
However, some DOD employees might have less use for it.<\/p>\n
\u201cPersonally, I don\u2019t know if you\u2019re always gonna have 100% [of personnel using it] because of [the makeup of] our workforce. We have a lot of mechanics, we got a lot of people turning wrenches. Not everyone is sitting in a nice, cushy, air-conditioned office typing away at a computer all day like some of us,\u201d he told DefenseScoop.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut \u2026 that\u2019s not really the number I\u2019m super concerned about. It\u2019s an interesting indicator, but I\u2019m interested in seeing the efficiencies that come out,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
He noted that there won\u2019t necessarily be \u201ccold, hard metrics\u201d for assessing all the efficiency gains from these technologies, likening it to trying to measure the efficiencies that have been generated by people using PCs and Microsoft Word instead of typewriters.<\/p>\n
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\n\t\t\tWritten by Jon Harper
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