ARLINGTON, Va. (AFNS) — The U.S. Space Force released its Data and Artificial Intelligence Strategic Action Plan for Fiscal Year 2024, providing enterprise-specific direction for achieving data centralization capable of conducting operations in contested environments .
“To remain competitive in the era of Great Power Competition, the U.S. Space Force needs a unified approach to data, analytics, and AI activities; an educated and empowered workforce capable of integrating business teams and tools; continued advanced research and rapid experimentation; and effective integration with our allies and partners,” said Col. Nathan L. Iven, acting director of Space Force Technology and Innovation. “To achieve this vision, the USSF Data and AI Strategic Action Plan for Fiscal Year 2024 identifies initial actions for organizations that are critical to establishing processes, building capabilities, and aligning efforts to better leverage data as a strategic asset.
According to the plan, the Space Force must adopt modern, adaptive and agile data and analytics capabilities to enable secure discovery, access, integration and use of intelligence data at the pace of mission requirements. To do this, the service will focus on the following four areas of effort to make data visible, accessible, understandable, linked, trustworthy, interoperable and secure:
• Mature enterprise-wide data and AI governance
• Promote a culture driven by data and AI
• Reoptimize data, advanced analytics and AI technologies
• Strengthen government, academic, industrial and international partnerships
“It is critical that we have a coordinated framework necessary to align with the DAF and synchronize stakeholders across the Space Force,” said Chandra L. Donelson, head of data and artificial intelligence for the Space Force. “This holistic enterprise approach outlined in this new Data Action Plan paves the way for the USSF to ensure that there will never be a day without space data for our nation, our allies and our partners. »
