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So if I want to ask a question on sustainment, where 70 percent of our funds in acquisition aren't going toward a platform they're going to the sustainment side, I need to have an understanding of where that money goes and what the drivers are, and how we can fix it.
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We sit - I sit, as the COO of DOD, on top of the largest organization in the world, and we are under-gunned in terms of the analytic capability that we tend to bring toward problems relative to the scale of both our size, and then the kinds of the consequences of the challenges we're looking at.Īnd so data is another way - an avenue - toward better analysis, better fact-finding, understanding how to see ourselves, understanding how to see our adversaries and all the other facets of a situation.
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So Jim, you know all too well, I'm an analyst at heart, and I like decisions to be based on facts and knowledge, and we should all hope that that's the case. I'd love to understand a little bit more about how you think about using data and some of the observations in terms of trying to work with where the department is today on having data inform your decision-making.ĭR. One thing that you've talked a lot about is the importance of using data-informed decision-making to provide you and the secretary with decision advantage, if you will, from the board room to the battlefield. And coming out of that, really, it became clear that something like what we now call CDAO was the best way to think about the tech stack that would help us unlock a lot of what we need in the department. We - I asked for - commissioned two separate independent studies that what commercial best practice was, and certainly, talked to our own workforce. We talked with folks on the outside, the - certainly, the A.I. We took that step with a lot of advisement. I don't mean that in any disparaging way, but from that sense that they had at that operational level of what they could provide with those big, strategic problems that we were looking at. So that was sort of the underlying sense I had.Īnd the more I talked to the communities of interest, learned what they were doing, got excited about the types of capabilities they can bring to bear and tie that, if you will, bottom up.
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So I certainly didn't walk into the department and say, "I'm a software program or a data analyst," or "I know how to build - you know, I'm a software engineer." It really was coming in, seeing all the things we want to achieve for the nation, for the nation's defense, and then understanding the kinds of concepts and capabilities that lead to that, and how - what opportunity we had here, based on what had been built before us in data, in the digital space, and of course, on A.I., and how we had this opportunity to really move forward on our mission space if we could capitalize on those moves that had come before us. So as you know, Jim, I'm at my heart sort of a strategist, and I think in a systems-level approach. How do you think about articulating that problem?ĭR. Well, one of the things that I'm interested in understanding a little bit more, and I expect many on the line are as well, is some of the initial observations you had when you first came into the Department of Defense and were thinking that there is a specific problem here that you were trying to solve with the CDAO. And I note there's no fire, but I'm letting it go.
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Kathleen Hicks.ĭEPUTY SECRETARY OF DEFENSE KATHLEEN HICKS: Hi. No further ado, it is my distinct privilege and honor to introduce the deputy secretary of defense, Dr. So in the spirit of a hot wash, the deputy secretary and I are now going to engage in a fireside chat to review some of the thinking and really understand her observations and insights about the CDAO. Now, in the Department of Defense often times after a mission, there'll be held what's often referred to as a hot wash, which is an opportunity to reflect on the mission, tease out some of the key lessons learned and think about the implications for the future.
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My job was to help establish the CDAO, and the CDAO, the chief digital and artificial intelligence officer, just hit full operating capability last week. My name is Jim Mitre, and until recently, I was a senior advisor to the deputy secretary of defense.