{"id":60130,"date":"2022-04-14T16:32:06","date_gmt":"2022-04-14T13:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=60130"},"modified":"2025-09-05T01:38:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T22:38:21","slug":"us-military-requests-29-8-million-for-ai-infrastructure-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/us-military-requests-29-8-million-for-ai-infrastructure-development\/","title":{"rendered":"US military requests $29.8 million for AI infrastructure development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Northcom has asked Congress for an additional $29.8 million to purchase equipment and optimize infrastructure for artificial intelligence and machine learning. The story appears in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/artificial-intelligence\/2022\/04\/11\/northcom-wants-millions-more-for-ai-and-data-handling\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Defense News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The department says that modernization will bolster the Pentagon&#8217;s data-collection, processing and storage efforts in the cloud computing environment. The improved infrastructure will also facilitate information sharing among Defense Department components, they added.<\/p>\n<p>According to U.S. Air Force General Glen VanHerck, &#8220;advanced capabilities&#8221; such as AI will give the United States an edge over formidable competitors.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cArtificial intelligence and machine learning will enable extracting the necessary information from existing data sets and sharing it with leaders at all levels to widen the space for decision-making,\u201d VanHerck told the Senate Armed Services Committee.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In October 2021, former Pentagon software chief Nicholas Chaillan said that <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/opinion-china-has-already-won-the-ai-race-against-the-united-states\">China won the AI race against the US<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A week later, the Ministry of Defense <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/us-army-cio-rebuts-claim-that-china-has-won-the-ai-race\">disputed the former employee&#8217;s claim<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In March, the Pentagon <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/pentagon-urges-broader-use-of-artificial-intelligence\">urged expanding the use of AI<\/a> to avoid losing to China and Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogAI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">ForkLog AI<\/a> \u2014 all the news from the world of AI!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Northcom has asked Congress for an additional $29.8 million to purchase equipment and optimize infrastructure for artificial intelligence and machine learning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60131,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"Northcom seeks $29.8m for AI infrastructure.","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[438,1824,26],"class_list":["post-60130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-pentagon","tag-usa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"21","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"Northcom seeks $29.8m for AI infrastructure.","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60130"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60132,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60130\/revisions\/60132"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}