As artificial intelligence (AI) tools provide troops and commanders with more and better decision-making capabilities in the field, they must be kept secure to ensure they are providing the best possible information.
Breaking Defense spoke with Mandy Satterwhite, Managing Director and Cyber Lead at Accenture Federal Services, to explore how operational cyber resilience and trustworthy AI are protecting warfighters and the national security enterprise under adversarial pressure.
Breaking Defense: AI promises to accelerate decision-making across the battlespace, but in high-consequence military operations, speed is useless without trust. What does “trustworthy AI” look like when every second counts on the frontline?
Mandy Satterwhite, Managing Director and Cyber Lead at Accenture Federal Services
Satterwhite: Trust isn’t an abstract ethical debate — it’s a non-negotiable operational requirement. In the heat of battle, if an AI system relies on poisoned data, yields an unexplainable result, or silently fails behind the scenes, it doesn’t give you an advantage; it creates unacceptable operational risk.
