• AI is a strategic priority for Defence, offering opportunities to enhance both back-office efficiency and operational effectiveness.

• Defence faces unique challenges in adopting AI, including secure system integration, skills shortages and talent acquisition, and assurance requirements.

• Industry collaboration is essential - we need partners to help us innovate, assure, and to work with us to navigate commercial processes.

• DAIC is enabling progress through initiatives like the updated Defence AI Playbook, the AI Expert Group, and the upcoming AI Model Checker.

• We’re building an AI-enabled Integrated Force that deters, fights, and wins through constant innovation at wartime pace - and we invite industry to help shape that future with us.