During an emerging technology summit held at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center, Radha Plumb — who served as the Defense Department’s chief digital and AI officer during the final year of the Biden administration — said competition with China, in particular, necessitates “an all hands on deck moment” for the U.S. government and industry partners, given Beijing’s military and economic strength.
Whether it’s firms building cloud environments or physical infrastructure, Plumb said “all of these pieces need to work together in a coherent ecosystem” to provide a competitive edge. But part of the problem, she added, is that the federal government is not fast enough when it comes to purchasing and deploying new technologies and “we don't have good models for scaling it.”
She warned that, when it comes to building out advanced AI capabilities in particular, “I think we do have a moment here, and I worry sometimes that it’s passing us by.”
Plumb used the rollout of 5G capabilities to underscore her point, noting that the deployment of the advanced cellular network also depends on procuring the necessary hardware and applications to create an integrated AI ecosystem.
“If that is ceded to Chinese companies and/or Chinese government solutions, that will mean we’ll use 5G Huawei networks on Huawei devices using DeepSeek applications with our data plus the Chinese data, and that's not an ecosystem that lends itself to U.S. — or even U.S. allies ..
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