INDOPACOM's chief AI officer says many Pacific partners are not using frontier models, with differing LLM policies complicating interoperability

At AFCEA TechNet Indo-Pacific in Honolulu (26–29 October), INDOPACOM chief AI officer Scott Brunstetter said many Pacific partners are not using frontier models and some are building smaller national capabilities, and asked industry to help the command understand partner capabilities. Brigadier Chris Alder of the Australian Army, vice director for intelligence, said allies' differing national approaches to LLMs complicate interoperability, and US Army Pacific commander General Ronald Clark called stopgap funding the biggest obstacle to new starts including experimentation and mission-partner-network efforts.