Artificial Intelligence Simplifies DOD Decision Making

With its innovative technical features, GAMECHANGER offers multiple advantages to the JAIC and to policy researchers and analysts across the Department:

• Synchronizes linked requirements with an agile machine learning operations (MLOps) framework to continually refine AI and ML capabilities, which train models to best explore, link, and understand DOD requirements
• Fine-tunes models, pre-trained on large datasets, using DOD and policy-specific language
• Provides the ability to swap in new models with no downtime and automatically download the necessary dependencies on deployment
• Enables application of a wide range of NLP—including summarization, keyword extraction, topic modeling, document comparison, named entity recognition, and question-answering—and any number of existing transformer models in industry and academia
• Collects user behavior data to create labeled datasets for document recommendation and improved ranking

Without a mechanism to singularly map and analyze the vast, evolving landscape of requirements, DOD decision makers used to operate in uncertainty—leveraging what they could easily access, but unable to fully unearth or navigate policies, roles, authorities, and strategies that were growing more complex.

Today, GAMECHANGER has created a seamless experience for stakeholders who operate in the DOD policy environment. The app now includes documents from over 27 different major sources. In the app’s initial phase, more than 6,000 users conducted in excess of 101,000 queries. The AI-enabled solution provides a model for advanced knowledge management and for successful human-machine teaming.

As an authoritative source of information, GAMECHANGER significantly reduces the time users once spent searching for policy data. With the ability to find accurate references more quickly than ever, DOD can avoid conflicting policy guidance, assess financial impacts of policy changes faster, and better ensure oversight and the alignment of policies with strategy—all while conserving Department resources. The overall result is a more integrated requirements environment where DOD’s policy decision makers receive the support they need to help protect the warfighter and advance the nation's critical defense missions.