Navy Capt. Xavier Lugo, head of the Department of Defense Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office’s Task Force Lima, said CDAO’s Alpha-1 portfolio of enterprise tools and capabilities enables the Pentagon to lay the foundation for the development of artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies, Federal News Network reported Friday.
Lugo said Alpha-1 “is starting to get momentum to enable AI and ML scaffolding,” including capabilities such as data labeling as a service, test and evaluation and federated model catalogs.
According to Lugo, data labeling is the first capability that Alpha-1 made available for DOD services and components.
“Data labeling was found to be a huge gap across the department. The program offices that were very mature — they already had their own data labeling services, but that came with constraints and caveats. For example, the data was not necessarily owned, wasn’t necessarily shared,” Lugo said.
Alpha 1’s data labeling services support the U.S. Navy’s Project Harbinger, the Coast Guard’s maritime object detection and the Marine Corps’ Smart Sensor program.