About Us

The Defense Digital Service (DDS) is a rapid response team that includes top engineers, data scientists, product managers and designers - from industry, government and the military - working in the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO) in the Office of the Secretary of Defense at the Department of Defense. We surge in times of crisis and emerging threat, take the lessons learned and the technology built, and add to the Defense Department’s capabilities.

The Department of Defense’s Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO) is the senior official responsible for the acceleration of the DoD’s adoption of data, analytics, and AI to generate decision advantage across, from the boardroom to the battlefield. Stood up in February 2022 by integrating the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC), the Defense Digital Service (DDS), the Chief Data Officer, and the enterprise platform Advana into one organization, the CDAO is building a strong foundation for data, analytic, and AI-enabled capabilities to be developed and fielded at scale.