Leading tech group weighs in on Pentagon inquiry into AI and the defense industrial base

The Information Technology Industry Council is urging the Department of Defense to take advantage of commercial solutions as it adopts artificial intelligence, seek out multiple and varied suppliers and recognize the best practices developed by the private sector as the Pentagon crafts a “trusted AI” roadmap for the defense industrial base.

“DoD must invest in acquisition techniques and practices that promote competition and supply chain resiliency for AI,” ITI says in July 19 comments to the Pentagon.

“While we...