The Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO) and the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) recently launched a project to deliver specialized, AI-enabled language translation technologies across all military services and commands. They have partnered with LILT, a San Francisco, California-based tech company, to deploy LILT’s AI-driven translation platform worldwide across the U.S. Army, Navy, and Air Force to close critical language and communication gaps, LILT announced February 3.
CDAO awarded LILT a flexible contract to expand its platform — developed initially under a DIU prototype — to support domain-specific vocabularies relevant to the Department of War. The platform enables rapid and accurate translation of text, video, and audio content into or out of English. This specialized, unique AI platform supports U.S. military missions that span from understanding foreign technical documentation and training materials to facilitating foreign partner exercises and supporting direct action missions.
One of the first military components experiencing the results of this program is the U.S. Army’s Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC). “LILT AI Translation has catapulted WHINSEC into the future of AI and its nexus with security cooperation and professional military education across the Western Hemisphere. We can now rapidly integrate international forces from countries that partner with the U.S. at all echelons: in the classrooms, during multinational exercises, and foreseeably in coalition combat outposts. That’s what we train for at CGSOC,” said U.S Army Colonel Eldridge Singleton, 9th WHINSEC Commandant.
CDAO’s ongoing collaboration with DIU further underscores the Department of War’s commitment to accelerating the adoption of frontier AI capabilities and the consistent efficiency gains CDAO is delivering to U.S Armed Forces. The collaboration with WHINSEC proves that AI, when strategically deployed for security cooperation and professional military education, can directly advance national security outcomes.
Source: LILT
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