Pentagon’s cyber chief nominee views AI integration as crucial to data defenses

President Biden’s pick to be the Defense Department’s first assistant secretary for cyber policy, Michael Sulmeyer, told a Senate panel last week that accelerating the integration of artificial intelligence capabilities into military operations will be crucial to furthering the Pentagon’s cybersecurity defenses.

“When applied to cyber missions, artificial intelligence has the potential to improve vulnerability research and access development and accelerate the speed and scale of many aspects of conducting cyber operations,” according to Sulmeyer’s written responses to questions...