DOD intelligence officials expressed their intentions to employ AI in threat analysis in a Google Defense Forum (GDF) on Thursday.
Richard Leach, Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) intelligence director and Army colonel, said that AI would alleviate decision-makers’ burden by expediting the processing and analyzing a “tsunami of data” received in hundreds or thousands of reports every day.
“Let AI identify key pieces of information and maybe do some of the basic analysis,” said Leach. “Let the analysts focus on the hard problem set so they’re not wasting time, resources, and people.”
Leach clarified that AI could move at a faster pace than human analysts, citing adversaries’ instantaneous switches between virtual private servers.
“[Adversaries are] moving at ‘lightspeed,’” said Leach. “They’re on fiber optic networks. They’re able to bounce from…
