1 00:00:00,840 --> 00:00:03,062 our competitors recognize the realities 2 00:00:03,062 --> 00:00:05,750 of the computer age . The world around 3 00:00:05,750 --> 00:00:08,180 us is changing at a pace faster than 4 00:00:08,180 --> 00:00:10,420 ever before . New technologies are 5 00:00:10,420 --> 00:00:12,340 emerging that are fundamentally 6 00:00:12,350 --> 00:00:14,640 altering how we think about plan and 7 00:00:14,640 --> 00:00:17,540 prepare for war . It's remarkable what 8 00:00:17,540 --> 00:00:19,730 the Chinese have been able to do in a 9 00:00:19,740 --> 00:00:21,462 very short amount of time . We 10 00:00:21,462 --> 00:00:23,351 recognize that the key to this is 11 00:00:23,351 --> 00:00:25,573 artificial intelligence . But we're not 12 00:00:25,573 --> 00:00:27,462 the only ones who understand that 13 00:00:27,462 --> 00:00:29,073 Russia understand that China 14 00:00:29,073 --> 00:00:31,018 understands the reality is at some 15 00:00:31,018 --> 00:00:33,240 point someone will put us to the test . 16 00:00:33,240 --> 00:00:35,240 Whichever nation harnesses AI first 17 00:00:35,240 --> 00:00:37,351 will have a decisive advantage on the 18 00:00:37,351 --> 00:00:39,518 battlefield for many , many years . We 19 00:00:39,518 --> 00:00:42,510 have to get there first . Yeah , 20 00:00:45,940 --> 00:00:46,940 uh huh . 21 00:00:49,440 --> 00:00:52,510 Artificial intelligence . It's a game 22 00:00:52,510 --> 00:00:54,454 changer In the United States , Air 23 00:00:54,454 --> 00:00:56,930 Force is looking to AI to improve every 24 00:00:56,930 --> 00:00:59,680 facet of the service . Before we talk 25 00:00:59,680 --> 00:01:01,958 about artificial intelligence , though , 26 00:01:01,958 --> 00:01:03,736 we first have to understand the 27 00:01:03,736 --> 00:01:06,240 Guadalupe . The envelope is a decision 28 00:01:06,240 --> 00:01:08,407 making strategy that provides an upper 29 00:01:08,407 --> 00:01:11,080 hand in any competitive environment and 30 00:01:11,080 --> 00:01:13,191 air to air combat . This tool enables 31 00:01:13,191 --> 00:01:15,610 pilots to observe a situation , orient 32 00:01:15,610 --> 00:01:17,388 themselves with all factors and 33 00:01:17,388 --> 00:01:19,443 variables involved , then decide and 34 00:01:19,443 --> 00:01:22,000 act based off of all the data consumed , 35 00:01:22,010 --> 00:01:24,310 though it was a method originally used 36 00:01:24,310 --> 00:01:26,630 by fighter pilots . Today , this tool 37 00:01:26,630 --> 00:01:28,940 has a dynamic range of use and in an 38 00:01:28,940 --> 00:01:30,773 atmosphere as competitive as the 39 00:01:30,773 --> 00:01:32,496 military , whoever can find an 40 00:01:32,496 --> 00:01:34,740 advantage quicker than the enemy wins . 41 00:01:34,750 --> 00:01:38,160 But how does a I play into all this ? 42 00:01:38,170 --> 00:01:41,160 Artificial intelligence has 43 00:01:41,240 --> 00:01:44,240 capability to significantly speed our 44 00:01:44,240 --> 00:01:46,296 total oops at every level tactical , 45 00:01:46,296 --> 00:01:48,518 operational and strategic . Each one of 46 00:01:48,518 --> 00:01:50,407 those functions has an associated 47 00:01:50,407 --> 00:01:52,240 timeline to them , so artificial 48 00:01:52,240 --> 00:01:54,490 intelligence has an ability to shrink 49 00:01:54,490 --> 00:01:56,712 those timelines fundamentally shrinking 50 00:01:56,712 --> 00:01:59,310 our little loop . Where do we look to 51 00:01:59,310 --> 00:02:00,940 identify and use artificial 52 00:02:00,940 --> 00:02:03,420 intelligence along the observe and 53 00:02:03,430 --> 00:02:05,740 Orient Side of the Guadalupe ? The 54 00:02:05,740 --> 00:02:07,930 things that provide better insights to 55 00:02:07,930 --> 00:02:11,060 people augment them so they have time 56 00:02:11,060 --> 00:02:13,116 and space to think about things that 57 00:02:13,116 --> 00:02:15,171 could never have thought of before . 58 00:02:15,171 --> 00:02:17,060 There's a lot of data out there . 59 00:02:17,060 --> 00:02:19,227 There's no possible way that any human 60 00:02:19,227 --> 00:02:21,393 can go through every Excel file in the 61 00:02:21,393 --> 00:02:23,910 United States Air Force and consume 62 00:02:23,910 --> 00:02:26,120 that and then make sense of it . But I 63 00:02:26,120 --> 00:02:28,231 can tell you there is a computer that 64 00:02:28,231 --> 00:02:30,300 is , and it can illuminate new 65 00:02:30,300 --> 00:02:32,830 strategies . That's the difference in 66 00:02:32,830 --> 00:02:36,110 the digital age with massive amounts of 67 00:02:36,110 --> 00:02:38,350 data to make sense of artificial 68 00:02:38,350 --> 00:02:40,517 intelligence is being added to the mix 69 00:02:40,517 --> 00:02:42,739 to assist humans and digesting the vast 70 00:02:42,739 --> 00:02:44,850 amounts of information needed to make 71 00:02:44,850 --> 00:02:47,150 sensible decisions . The 4 12 test wing 72 00:02:47,160 --> 00:02:48,938 out of Edwards Air Force Base , 73 00:02:48,938 --> 00:02:50,771 California , has one unit at the 74 00:02:50,771 --> 00:02:53,160 forefront of the Air Force's AI efforts . 75 00:02:53,240 --> 00:02:55,407 You hear things people talk about data 76 00:02:55,407 --> 00:02:57,518 is now a weapon . So let's take every 77 00:02:57,518 --> 00:02:59,629 domain and say there's , you know , x 78 00:02:59,629 --> 00:03:01,962 number of sensors in that domain . Well , 79 00:03:01,962 --> 00:03:01,870 now , as you start including cyber and 80 00:03:01,870 --> 00:03:03,814 start including space , how do you 81 00:03:03,814 --> 00:03:05,703 build a centre where all of those 82 00:03:05,703 --> 00:03:07,870 sensors , you know , all the air , all 83 00:03:07,870 --> 00:03:09,926 the space , all the ground , all the 84 00:03:09,926 --> 00:03:12,092 naval . I mean , everything comes into 85 00:03:12,092 --> 00:03:11,890 one place , So what we do is we take 86 00:03:11,890 --> 00:03:14,001 all the data that exists , everything 87 00:03:14,001 --> 00:03:15,723 that's available and filter it 88 00:03:15,723 --> 00:03:17,779 correctly . So a decision maker only 89 00:03:17,779 --> 00:03:19,890 has the pieces that they need to make 90 00:03:19,890 --> 00:03:22,112 that decision so they don't get quickly 91 00:03:22,112 --> 00:03:21,830 overwhelmed by it . And if you can do 92 00:03:21,830 --> 00:03:24,163 that in seconds and your adversary camp , 93 00:03:24,163 --> 00:03:26,274 that's where you move ahead . What we 94 00:03:26,274 --> 00:03:28,330 have in the Air Force and throughout 95 00:03:28,330 --> 00:03:30,386 the D . O . D are very unique , very 96 00:03:30,386 --> 00:03:32,052 challenging problems that the 97 00:03:32,052 --> 00:03:34,163 commercial sector just simply doesn't 98 00:03:34,163 --> 00:03:36,219 have . It's critical that we matched 99 00:03:36,219 --> 00:03:38,330 that talent with those problems , and 100 00:03:38,330 --> 00:03:40,441 that's one of the biggest reasons why 101 00:03:40,441 --> 00:03:42,497 we have to partner with academia and 102 00:03:42,497 --> 00:03:44,719 with the private sector . But the other 103 00:03:44,719 --> 00:03:46,663 reason is they have on their own a 104 00:03:46,663 --> 00:03:48,330 different type of competitive 105 00:03:48,330 --> 00:03:50,552 environment where they have learned how 106 00:03:50,552 --> 00:03:52,663 to iterate very , very quickly . They 107 00:03:52,663 --> 00:03:54,830 are in a competitive environment where 108 00:03:54,830 --> 00:03:54,290 they've got to figure out a whole 109 00:03:54,290 --> 00:03:56,570 different system that fundamentally 110 00:03:56,570 --> 00:03:58,930 speeds there , uh , to loop . So that 111 00:03:58,930 --> 00:04:01,810 created a culture of small teams , 112 00:04:01,810 --> 00:04:03,699 developing capabilities and being 113 00:04:03,699 --> 00:04:05,588 innovative and a lot of bottom up 114 00:04:05,588 --> 00:04:07,366 innovation which was valued and 115 00:04:07,366 --> 00:04:09,750 cultivated . And I think that that 116 00:04:09,750 --> 00:04:11,950 culture is something we desperately 117 00:04:11,950 --> 00:04:15,730 need in the military . It's no secret 118 00:04:15,730 --> 00:04:17,897 that for decades the commercial sector 119 00:04:17,897 --> 00:04:19,674 has adopted methods used by the 120 00:04:19,674 --> 00:04:21,619 military in order to bolster their 121 00:04:21,619 --> 00:04:23,508 competitive edge . Similarly , to 122 00:04:23,508 --> 00:04:25,730 maintain dominance in the digital age , 123 00:04:25,730 --> 00:04:27,952 the Air Force's embedding airmen of all 124 00:04:27,952 --> 00:04:30,119 ranks and backgrounds into academia in 125 00:04:30,119 --> 00:04:32,119 industry across the nation , one of 126 00:04:32,119 --> 00:04:34,341 these small , innovative teams is an ai 127 00:04:34,341 --> 00:04:36,563 tech accelerator operating out of M . I 128 00:04:36,563 --> 00:04:40,470 T . In Cambridge , Massachusetts . This 129 00:04:40,470 --> 00:04:42,748 is a different model of acquiring tech . 130 00:04:42,748 --> 00:04:44,748 One of the great drivers to partner 131 00:04:44,748 --> 00:04:46,914 with Mitt is we wanted to partner with 132 00:04:46,914 --> 00:04:48,859 best in brand . Best in breed . We 133 00:04:48,859 --> 00:04:51,137 intentionally come to a place like MIT . 134 00:04:51,137 --> 00:04:53,780 We intentionally do projects with some 135 00:04:53,780 --> 00:04:55,947 of the best principal investigators on 136 00:04:55,947 --> 00:04:58,169 the planet , and we intentionally embed 137 00:04:58,169 --> 00:05:00,224 US airmen of all different ranks and 138 00:05:00,224 --> 00:05:02,390 backgrounds to be here to solve 139 00:05:02,390 --> 00:05:04,410 problems that make a difference for 140 00:05:04,410 --> 00:05:07,120 Airman . So the idea here is the Air 141 00:05:07,120 --> 00:05:09,650 Force attempting a new way of going 142 00:05:09,650 --> 00:05:12,600 after technology that disrupts 143 00:05:12,610 --> 00:05:14,832 seemingly every couple of weeks or so . 144 00:05:14,832 --> 00:05:16,832 So everything that we look at as an 145 00:05:16,832 --> 00:05:18,610 accelerator is about delivering 146 00:05:18,610 --> 00:05:20,832 capability . So it's not research , its 147 00:05:20,832 --> 00:05:23,240 application and delivery with speed , 148 00:05:23,250 --> 00:05:25,590 our acquisition system as a whole Islam . 149 00:05:25,600 --> 00:05:27,711 There are nations around the world in 150 00:05:27,711 --> 00:05:29,878 which they have the ability to do very 151 00:05:29,878 --> 00:05:31,822 rapid advances . People around the 152 00:05:31,822 --> 00:05:33,711 world can compete with the United 153 00:05:33,711 --> 00:05:35,933 States , and they don't have to build a 154 00:05:35,933 --> 00:05:38,100 B two bomber or an aircraft carrier to 155 00:05:38,100 --> 00:05:40,322 do it . These types of technologies can 156 00:05:40,322 --> 00:05:42,433 come about from someone's garage , so 157 00:05:42,433 --> 00:05:44,489 there was a realization that this is 158 00:05:44,489 --> 00:05:44,020 the new world , and we need to get 159 00:05:44,020 --> 00:05:46,670 after this the only way that we make a 160 00:05:46,670 --> 00:05:48,850 I real for airmen is if we field 161 00:05:48,860 --> 00:05:51,550 capability , we get feedback , we fix , 162 00:05:51,560 --> 00:05:53,920 we deploy the next version of it . And 163 00:05:53,920 --> 00:05:56,087 what I've learned very much so in this 164 00:05:56,087 --> 00:05:57,976 world is there's no such thing as 165 00:05:57,976 --> 00:05:59,809 declaring victory and artificial 166 00:05:59,809 --> 00:06:02,031 intelligence machine learning . There's 167 00:06:02,031 --> 00:06:01,680 no single point in time where we go , 168 00:06:01,690 --> 00:06:04,650 we win and we walk away . It has to be 169 00:06:04,660 --> 00:06:06,460 a continuous engagement , 170 00:06:11,240 --> 00:06:11,450 right ?