{"id":17532,"date":"2024-05-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-20T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/members.dataiq.global\/award-winner\/best-ai-team-department-of-the-air-force-chief-data-and-ai-office-ai-division\/"},"modified":"2025-05-09T13:10:01","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T12:10:01","slug":"best-ai-team-department-of-the-air-force-chief-data-and-ai-office-ai-division","status":"publish","type":"award-winner","link":"https:\/\/www.dataiq.global\/devstage\/award-winner\/best-ai-team-department-of-the-air-force-chief-data-and-ai-office-ai-division\/","title":{"rendered":"AI Awards 2024 \u2013 Best AI Team: Department of the Air Force Chief Data and AI Office, AI Division"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cDr Graves\u2019s adept leadership has fostered groundbreaking partnerships and initiatives. Their strategic influence extends beyond the DAF, impacting the broader defense sector and fostering collaboration with industry and academia.\u201d \u2013 Judges\u2019 comment.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Under Dr Lynne Graves\u2019s stewardship, the AI team inaugurated partnerships, including with the groundbreaking Autonomy Data and AI Experimentation Proving Ground (ADAx); the first of its kind in the Department of Defense dedicated to propelling live testing of AI and autonomous systems throughout their life cycles.\u00a0 \u00a0 The efforts and dedication of the AI team further yielded the first Test and Evaluation AI primer and the inception of the DAF AI procurement strategy handbook. These essential frameworks position the Department\u2019s enterprise to synchronize efforts across two integral branches of military service, catalyzing strategic and cohesive advances in critical technologies.\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe team\u2019s exceptional contributions, marked by innovation and strategic vision, position them as deserving recipients of the Best AI team award, showcasing their pivotal role in shaping the future of defense technology.\u201d \u2013 Judges\u2019 comment.\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Successful AI requires teamwork, and the Department of the Air Force Chief Data and AI Office took the title for Best AI Team at the 2024 DataIQ AI Awards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":17533,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","_searchwp_excluded":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17532","award-winner","type-award-winner","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":{"introduction":"<p>The Department of the Air Force (DAF) Chief Data and AI Office, AI Division\u2019s achievements have truly reshaped the future of defense technology, setting a formidable pace in AI applications within the United States Air and Space Forces. The expert AI team has delivered \u2013 and continues to deliver \u2013 an unprecedented suite of accomplishments that are elevating the DAF\u2019s AI and data science capabilities. Key milestones include the development of the first publicly available AI roadmap which is propelling the DAF to the forefront of AI-readiness in alignment with directives from the National Security Commission on AI.\u00a0<\/p>","winner":"Department of the Air Force Chief Data and AI Office, AI Division","award_programme":"DataIQ Awards North America 2024","year":"2024","region":"USA","award_category":"Best AI Team","thumbnail":17533,"additional_image":"","affinoid":"9904"},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dataiq.global\/devstage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/award-winner\/17532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dataiq.global\/devstage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/award-winner"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dataiq.global\/devstage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/award-winner"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dataiq.global\/devstage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/award-winner\/17532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35789,"href":"https:\/\/www.dataiq.global\/devstage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/award-winner\/17532\/revisions\/35789"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dataiq.global\/devstage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dataiq.global\/devstage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dataiq.global\/devstage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}