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Accelerating the DoD’s Adoption of Data, Analytics, and AI to Generate Decision Advantage from the Boardroom to the Battlefield
Tradewind is the Department of Defense's framework for sourcing, funding, and developing solutions to challenges in the artificial intelligence/machine learning, digital, and data analytics space.
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Tradewind Solutions Marketplace
The Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO) in conjunction with its marketplace manager, IN3, is initiating an open comment period for industry, academia, and DOD input to shape a new Tradewind initiative entitled, the “Tradewind Solutions Marketplace.”
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Combatant Craft Division Subsystems Assessment Event (AE)
SOFWERX, in collaboration with USSOCOM and Naval Surface Warfare Center Carderock – Combatant Craft Division (NSWC-CCD), will host an Assessment Event to identify solutions for fabrication, assembly, and integration of subsystems into a watercraft of both aluminum and fiberglas...
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Maritime Capable Tethered UAS Assessment Event (AE)
SOFWERX, in collaboration with SOF Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics (SOF AT&L) Program Executive Office Special Reconnaissance (PEO-SR), will host an Assessment Event (AE) to identify solutions for a small tethered Uncrewed Aerial System (UAS) that can operate in both land ...
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Directly Supporting CDAO
Tradewind is an ecosystem that houses vehicles, tools, and a suite of other services for the DoD’s Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO). The Office serves as the focal point for the execution of the Department’s AI strategy and is responsible for strengthening and integrating artificial intelligence/machine learning, digital, and data analytics solutions across the Department.
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Responsible Artificial Intelligence (RAI)
Learn About RAIResponsible Artificial Intelligence (RAI) is a holistic, integrated, and disciplined approach that focuses, not only on the technology, namely operationalizing the DoD AI Ethics Principles via good engineering practices, but on organizational operating structures and culture necessary to advance the responsible design, development, procurement and use of AI.
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