US Navy to Test AI-Powered Virtual Assistant for Crews

Amidst severe staff shortages, the U.S. Navy is set to launch an AI tech support pilot program.

“She's going through her testing and evaluation periods right now with the government and we have a pilot planned for later this month where the Navy will give us some specific programs to test against it,” Travis Dawson, chief technology office for the Navy and Marine Corps sector at GDIT, told Defense One.