Bang '93 Encourages Army to Pursue Sensor-Related Artificial Intelligence Effort

The Army’s second-in-charge for acquisitions, Young Bang '93, is encouraging the service to leverage more AI and ML applications, Mixon shared. Bang '93, a West Point graduate and former Army captain, spent several years in industry pursuing emerging technologies—AI, ML, quantum, augmented reality and other capabilities—with Atlas Research, KPMG and in the telecommunications industry—before returning to the Army. “The principal deputy assistant secretary for Army acquisitions, Mr. Bang '93, came out of industry, and he's now the number two within the Army acquisition enterprise,” Mixon noted. “He is really pushing the PEO and the Army to change with respect to AI and ML.” Read more.