CRS reports on Pentagon AI reorganization

The Congressional Research Service in a Sept. 30 report studies the Pentagon’s realignment of the digital and artificial intelligence office and provides background on how AI issues have been handled historically at the Defense Department.

The organizational shift was ordered in an August memo from Deputy Defense Secretary Stephen Feinberg, placing the Chief Digital and AI Office beneath the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering.

“This realignment, the memo stated, was intended to ‘directly [implement] the...