Sullivan stresses procurement reforms from Biden’s AI national security memo

National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan told an audience of military officials and contractors that President Biden’s new artificial intelligence national security memorandum will force a major overhaul of how the Defense Department, and by extension the entire government, tests and purchases technologies, with implications throughout the increasingly tech-dependent economy.

“Look, it means dramatically reimagining our acquisition and procurement system, our testing, validating and fielding system,” Sullivan said in Oct. 24 remarks at the National Defense University to lay out...