COMMENTARY


GET ON THE AI TRAIN


Appropriate training environments and tools are essential to successfully integrating AI. The GCSS-Army virtual training environment could be a tailorable platform used to train Soldiers to apply AI tools and existing data. (Photo by Master Sgt. Becky Vanshur, 124th Fighter Wing)


framework for the development and integration of AI. Tis framework is in line with DOD goals to provide “AI-enabled information, tools and systems to empower, not replace, those who serve.” Applying an AI framework to existing data to provide predictive analysis for commanders through Army Readiness – Common Operating Picture, improving AI training nested with GCSS-Army and leveraging the industrial base to assist with data collection and AI integration are the next steps. Tese steps are steep and the path is littered with obstacles, but the Army sustain- ment enterprise is primed to lead the change in AI for the Army and DOD. Tese steps are only the first of many required for us to realize that imagined world.


“Advances in AI have the potential to change the char- acter of warfare for generations to come. Whichever nation harnesses AI first will have a decisive advantage on the battlefield for many, many years. We have to get there first.”


—FORMER SECRETARY OF DEFENSE MARK T. ESPER.


For more information, contact the authors at nathan.d.platz.mil@ mail.mil or andrew.s.horn2.mil@mail.mil.


MAJ. NATHAN PLATZ is a logistics officer currently serving as the deputy director of logistics (J-4) for Special Operations Command North, Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado. He has served in Airborne and Stryker brigade combat teams, sustainment brigades and in special operations with experience in Iraq, Afghanistan, Europe and the Pacific. He holds an MBA from the College of William and Mary and a B.S. in computer science from Missouri State University.


MAJ. ANDREW HORN is a logistics officer currently serving as the executive officer to the commanding general of 8th Teater Support Command, Fort Shafter, Hawaii. He has served in infantry brigade combat teams, sustainment brigades and in special operations with experience in Iraq, Afghanistan, Europe and the Pacific. He holds an M.S. in supply chain management from the University of Kansas and a BBA from Pacific Lutheran University.


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