Eric Schmidt Archives

New digital and AI chief commits to helping solve the Pentagon’s ‘software problem’

It marks on of Craig Martell's many priorities in driving DOD adapt to the increasingly digital nature of its missions.

Jun 7, 2022 By Brandi Vincent

DOD doesn’t have what it needs for ‘software supremacy,’ Eric Schmidt says

The former Google CEO gave blunt criticisms about the DOD's continued struggle to innovate and become a software-driven entity.

Mar 7, 2022 By Billy Mitchell

In final report, commission makes plea for DOD to field AI fast

The commission's more than 700-page report contains one message above all: The government need to field AI, and it needs to field it fast.

Mar 8, 2021 By Jackson Barnett

Eric Schmidt, Defense Innovation Board (DIB) — Chairman Eric Schmidt speaks May 3, 2019, at a Defense Innovation Board event at the Pentagon. (DOD / Army Sgt. Amber I. Smith)

AI commission tells DOD to get AI infrastructure ready by 2025, or else

In a draft of its final report to Congress, the National Security Commission on AI continues to hammer home the importance of laying a foundation of AI…

Jan 28, 2021 By Jackson Barnett

Michael Kratsios, White House, DOD — Michael Kratsios (DOD / Marvin Lynchard)

Pentagon needs a more powerful CTO office, says AI advisory panel

The DOD's CTO needs more teeth, according to the former Deputy Secretary of Defense and the National Security Commissions on Artificial Intelligence.

Oct 13, 2020 By Jackson Barnett

Defense Innovation Board Meets in Washington, D.C. — The chair of the Defense Innovation Board, Eric Schmidt, technical advisor at Alphabet, Inc., opens the public meeting of the board, at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, Washington, D.C., Oct. 10, 2018. (DOD / Lisa Ferdinando)

Eric Schmidt and other founding Defense Innovation Board members depart

Eric Schmidt and other influential DIB board members, including Jen Pahlka, ended their four-year terms offering DOD advice on how to work better with tech.

Sep 15, 2020 By Jackson Barnett

National Security Commission on AI recommends digital reserve corps and academy

The ideas would help to increase the technology workforce in the government and retain workers in the private secretor through a reserve corps like the military.

Jul 20, 2020 By Jackson Barnett

National Security Commission on AI needs to be more transparent, court rules

The National Security Commision on AI needs to let the public know more about it's work, a court recently ruled.

Jul 7, 2020 By Jackson Barnett

Josh Marcuse speaks Aug. 21, 2018, at FedTalks in Washington, D.C. (FedScoop)

Defense Innovation Board’s Josh Marcuse heads to Google

The executive director of the Defense Innovation Board is leaving for Google where he will work in the tech giant's public sector team.

May 4, 2020 By Jackson Barnett

Deputy Secretary of Defense Bob Work delivering remarks to newly promoted brigadier generals and rear admirals serving in the United States military as part of the CAPSTONE course at the National Defense University, Fort McNair, Washington, DC on August 12, 2014. (DoD photo by Casper Manlangit)

Federal R&D spending on AI should be doubled, then doubled again, commission says

The National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence calls for an immediate doubling of funding for non-defense R&D around AI starting next fiscal year, and then again in…

Apr 1, 2020 By Billy Mitchell