After months of delays and contentious debate among industry, DOD issued the final request for proposals Thursday for its JEDI contract.

Brendan McCord, DIUx's head of machine learning, gave the Defense Innovation Board members an update on the center at the board's recent public meeting.

Deasy called cloud "the most phenomenal opportunity I think we've ever experienced as technical folks to be able to look at your legacy estate and say this is a brilliant opportunity to re-engineer."

A multiple award contract, the department believes, “could prevent DoD from rapidly delivering new capabilities and improved effectiveness to the warfighter that enterprise-level cloud computing can enable.”

Artificial intelligence has the capacity to help warfighters accomplish their missions faster and with less collateral damage, leaders said Tuesday. Google employees recently criticized the surveillance project.

The lieutenant general has served as CIO of the Air Force since June 2017.