The U.S. Army intends to release a series of requests for information focused on artificial intelligence capabilities, testing and security in the next few months with plans to issue the RFI specific to fostering AI partnerships with industry in July, Nextgov/FCW reported Wednesday.
A spokesperson for the Army told the publication that the upcoming RFI next month will be used to assess the trustworthiness of external algorithms.
Young Bang, principal deputy assistant secretary of the Army for acquisition, logistics and technology, said the service branch will seek the industry’s help to measure their software’s risk levels with a focus on poisoned data sets and Trojan horse malware, among other risks, and then work with potential contractors to advance the safe deployment of AI tools by improving oversight controls.
“What we’re going to do is push this out as an RFI to the industry,” said Bang, a 2024 Wash100 awardee.
“We want you to come back and say ‘here’s some processes and tools that we have that can help you.’ The intent is to automate all this so we can go faster, work with you all and adopt our third party generated algorithms,” he added.