A marketplace for mission-ready AI: Accelerating capability delivery to the Pentagon : Atlantic Council , August 14 , 2025
August 14, 2025
Atlantic Council
A marketplace for mission-ready AI: Accelerating capability delivery to the Pentagon : Atlantic Council , August 14 , 2025
August 14, 2025
Atlantic Council
From the document: "The Department of Defense (DOD) should accelerate the deployment of operational artificial intelligence (AI) by establishing a performance-driven AI model marketplace. This strategic insights memo outlines a framework for one such marketplace. The approach incentivizes innovation through open competition, rapid iteration, and real-world performance validation—delivering mission-ready AI solutions at speed and scale. This proposal follows the principles outlined by the Atlantic Council’s Software-Defined Warfare Commission.
Currently, the government purchases AI models from a variety of industry partners. These models need regular retraining and optimization to be relevant in the deployed scenarios. There is a better way to meet the Defense Department’s need for AI.
In this proposal, the government would make a “data lake” available for industry partners to use to train models. This data lake could consist of imagery, radio frequency, sonar, and other mission-relevant datasets. Vendors could independently train models on this data lake and submit them to a centralized government model catalog—the Open Model Marketplace—where they would be made available for discovery and deployment by DOD components across services and commands."
Authors - Long, Jack, Patel, Bharat C., Kandasamy, JagsSubjects
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