Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Officer (CDAO) - MIP

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What it is

Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Officer (CDAO) - MIP (0604124D8Z) is an OSD research & development line funded in the Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-Wide account. Its J-book detail breaks the line into 1 project.

What changed

No FY25→26 comparison — endpoints unavailable or on different bases.

Who gets it

No award linkage at high confidence.

Budget Figures

FY24 Actuals

$45.3MR-1 TOA · PB2026

FY25 Enacted

$0P-40 detail · PB2026

FY26 Request

$0P-40 detail · PB2026

FY25→26 Change

No comparison: endpoints unavailable or on different bases

FY2026 award data is a partial year — USASpending awards are reported on a rolling basis and the fiscal year does not close until September 30. why partial FY2026 data? →

Budget Trajectory

The program's 3 summary figures for FY24 to FY26, plotted in fiscal-year order so the direction of travel is readable at a glance: this line ends lower than it starts. The points are the summary cards above, not a separate derivation; the table beside the chart carries each figure with its own citation.

Budget trajectory: one row per fiscal year, carrying the summary figure the sparkline plots. Every figure opens its own citation.
Fiscal year	Amount
FY24	$45.3MR-1 TOA · PB2026
FY25	$0P-40 detail · PB2026
FY26	$0P-40 detail · PB2026

Decade view — P-1/R-1 workbook TOA basis, shown compact in $B/$M (the workbook records USD thousands); each figure cites its own President's Budget edition

4 fiscal years of this program as published (FY2021–FY2024): a line through the actuals (filled dots), with the enacted (hollow circles) and request (diamonds) markers each edition reported. Read it for direction, not for precision — this program's actuals line rises across the span. The grid below is the same data as text, one cited figure per cell.

The vertical scale does not start at zero: the baseline sits just below this program’s smallest year, so a low point on this line is not a small amount. Read the shape for direction and the grid below for the figures.

● actuals (line) · ○ enacted · ◇ request — gaps are editions the program is absent from, never interpolated.

Decade series values by fiscal year and President's Budget edition: one row per series (actuals, enacted, request), one column per fiscal year. Every figure opens its own citation.
Series	FY21	FY22	FY23	FY24
Actuals	$0	$0	$70.8M	$45.3M
Enacted	–	$0	$70.8M	$34.4M
Request	–	–	$34.0M	$34.4M

blank = series not published for this year; – = absent from that edition.

Asked vs spent: the PB2023 book requested $34.0M for FY2023; the PB2025 book reported $70.8M as actual total obligation authority — $36.8M above the request. 70.78 − 33.95 = 36.83 USD millions — the compact figures above are rounded for reading.

Program Lineage

No predecessor/successor lineage was recorded for this program element — no FY-to-FY transfer into or out of this line was stated in the ingested J-books, and none was inferred from the program structure.

Description

Mission — Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Officer (CDAO) - MIP

The Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Officer (CDAO) supports the Department's initiatives to build enduring advantage and build a resilient Joint Force and defense ecosystem. The CDAO is responsible for strengthening and integrating data, artificial intelligence, and digital solutions in the Department in support of the interim National Defense Strategy and Section 1513 of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for FY 2023. The functions of the CDAO are as follows: lead and oversee the DoD’s strategy development and policy formulation for data, analytics, and AI; break down barriers to data and AI adoption within DoD institutional processes; create enabling digital infrastructure and services that support Components’ development and deployment of data, analytics, AI, and digital-enabled solutions; selectively scale proven digital and AI-enabled solutions focused on enterprise and joint use cases; and surge digital services for rapid response to crises and emergent challenges. The CDAO will continue priority projects that align to the mission. This includes expanding the AI integration between the DoD and Intelligence Community (IC); enterprise data repository; establishing a responsible AI ecosystem; executing the AI and Data Accelerator (ADA) initiative; and developing a Data, Analytics, and AI Adoption Strategy. These various lines of effort will support the overarching mission of accelerating the Department’s adoption of data, analytics, and AI to preserve decision advantage across the Joint Force. The CDAO’s DoD and IC Integration Division was chartered to create joint interoperability and to harness and scale AI across the DoD and IC jointly, especially within the Defense Intelligence Enterprise. The organizational purpose is to improve coordination and interoperability between DoD and the IC, minimize duplication while maximizing a common approach, and develop an innovated joint AI operational concept and capability, where appropriate. This funding is assigned to support algorithm development, data preparation, and integration experimentation to create joint DoD and IC capabilities. Further details are classified and available upon request.

Mission — Intelligence Support

The CDAO’s DoD and IC Integration Division was chartered to create joint interoperability and to harness and scale AI across the DoD and IC jointly, especially within the Defense Intelligence Enterprise. The organizational purpose is to improve coordination and interoperability between DoD and the IC, minimize duplication while maximizing a common approach, and develop an innovated joint AI operational concept and capability, where appropriate. This funding is assigned to support algorithm development, data preparation, and integration experimentation to create joint DoD and IC capabilities. Further details are classified and available upon request.

Justification

Accomplishments & Planned Programs (1)

Project Maven

The CDAO’s DoD and IC Integration Division is chartered to create joint interoperability and to harness and scale AI across the DoD and IC jointly, especially within the Defense Intelligence Enterprise in support of the interim National Defense Strategy. The organizational purpose is to improve coordination and interoperability between DoD and the IC, minimize duplication while maximizing a common approach, and develop an innovated joint AI operational concept and capability, where appropriate. This funding is assigned to support algorithm development, data preparation, and integration experimentation to create joint DoD and IC capabilities. Further details are classified and available upon request.

Budget Line Items(workbook-cited)

P-1/R-1 workbook Total Obligation Authority basis (USD thousands) · PB2026.

Exhibit R-1

Account	Org	Type	Amount
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-Wide	OSD	FY24 Actuals	$45.3M

Budget Details(R-2/P-40 facts)

J-book detail basis (R-2/P-40, USD millions) · PB2026 — a different accounting basis from the P-1/R-1 workbook TOA above; where the two disagree, the reconciliation strip under Budget Figures shows both.

Wider than this screen — swipe the table sideways for the remaining fiscal-year columns.

Project	All Prior Years	FY24 Actuals	FY25 Total	FY26 Base	FY26 Request
Program Element	$70.8M	$45.3M	$0	$0	$0
068: Intelligence Support	$70.8M	$45.3M	$0	$0	$0

No follow-the-dollar view — this program's awards haven't been crosswalked at high confidence (flows cover 17 of 1,741 programs). why coverage is partial? →

Awards

No awards are linked to this program element at high confidence — the budget→award crosswalk only asserts links it can defend, and this line has none yet.

Lobbying Mentions

Showing 25 of 44 from the Senate LDA disclosure database.

INSIGHTS ASSOCIATION (FKA: MARKETING RESEARCH ASSOCIATION)Digital|Artificial2026matched 2+ title words

Support for international trade agreements, like USMCA, that promote digital trade and combat data localization…