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Find similar grantsAI Rapid Capabilities Cell (AI RCC) is sponsored by U.S. Department of Defense. The AI RCC focuses on accelerating the Department of Defense's adoption of next-generation artificial intelligence, including Generative AI, by leading efforts to deploy cutting-edge AI-enabled tools across the DoD.
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AI has incredible promise across the DoW's full gamut of activities, from inside the Pentagon, to headquarters elements, to the battlefield itself, and more. Emerging Generative AI (GenAI) capabilities—such as Large Language Models (LLMs)—offer significant potential to transform DoW missions and operations.
## Accelerating DoW Adoption of AI To integrate rapidly evolving AI solutions at the speed of relevancy, CDAO has stood up an AI Rapid Capabilities Cell (AI RCC) in partnership with the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU). The AI RCC is leading efforts to accelerate and scale the deployment of cutting-edge AI-enabled tools, to include frontier models, across the DoW.
The AI RCC is prioritizing executing pilots in the primary warfighting and enterprise management use case areas identified by Task Force Lima, which was sunsetted in December 2024. Those areas are: > Command and Control (C2) and decision support, operational planning, logistics, weapons development and testing, uncrewed and autonomous systems, intelligence activities, information operations, and cyber operations.
> **Enterprise management:** > Financial systems, human resources, enterprise logistics and supply chain, health care information management, legal analysis and compliance, procurement processes, and software development and cybersecurity.
In addition to rapid experimentation through pilots in priority use cases, AI RCC is also making investments in foundational AI infrastructure and tools to enable pilot development, experimentation, and testing. Companies with innovative AI solutions can submit pitch videos on CDAO’s Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace, or solution briefs to DIU’s open Commercial Solutions Openings (CSOs).
Stay tuned for further details as DoW plans to release further AI-centric challenges in the future. Learn more about the AI RCC’s priority initiatives and investments by downloading the fact sheet below. CDAO’s GenAI-version of the Responsible AI Toolkit provides tools tailored to improve the assurance of GenAI technology.
### Task Force Lima Executive Summary Read the publicly available executive summary from Task Force Lima’s final report. Use this lexicon as a reference for common GenAI terms.
Based on current listing details, eligibility includes: Organizations with expertise in artificial intelligence and data analytics. Applicants should confirm final requirements in the official notice before submission.
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