What Happened
Department Seeks To Overhaul Sensitive Information Management
The Pentagon has launched a pilot program to use artificial intelligence to manage its classification processes and handling of sensitive military information. The program, which will utilize the Air Force’s Automated Classification Management Environment (ACME), aims to overhaul the department’s outdated classification and declassification procedures. According to a memorandum issued by Deputy Defense Secretary Steve Feinberg, the pilot program will start with a small-scale deployment and may eventually serve as the single digital authoritative reference for all of the DOD’s original classification decisions. The initiative was first reported by DefenseScoop.