DIA Centralizes AI With Digital Modernization Accelerator, Deploys ChatDIA on Top-Secret JWICS Network

The Defense Intelligence Agency is institutionalizing its centralized approach to AI after a year-long effort to rationalize previously uncoordinated projects. DIA deployed ChatDIA, the first generative AI chatbot running on the top-secret JWICS network, and created the National Digital Exploitation and Open-Source Center by merging the National Media Exploitation Center and the Open-Source Intelligence Integration Center. The agency is sending mission integration teams of three to four AI experts to Combatant Commands to help reorganize staff processes and workflows around AI capabilities.