{"id":177736,"date":"2026-01-13T21:05:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T02:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/13\/pentagon-names-cameron-stanley-next-ai-chief-meritalk\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T23:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T04:05:09","slug":"pentagon-names-cameron-stanley-next-ai-chief-meritalk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/13\/pentagon-names-cameron-stanley-next-ai-chief-meritalk\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon Names Cameron Stanley Next AI Chief \u2013 MeriTalk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/meritalk.com\/articles\/pentagon-names-cameron-stanley-next-ai-chief\/\">Pentagon Names Cameron Stanley Next AI Chief \u2013 MeriTalk<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/meritalk.com\/articles\/pentagon-names-cameron-stanley-next-ai-chief\/\">https:\/\/meritalk.com\/articles\/pentagon-names-cameron-stanley-next-ai-chief\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-01-13 21:05:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"meritalk.com\">meritalk.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cameron Stanley is appointed as the Pentagon\u2019s next Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Officer (CDAO).<\/li>\n<li>The appointment was announced by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Jan. 12 at SpaceX headquarters in Texas.<\/li>\n<li>Stanley&#8217;s new position is critical as the Defense Department (DOD) invests heavily in artificial intelligence (AI) to innovate both combat and administrative functions.<\/li>\n<li>Stanley formerly served as Amazon Web Services\u2019 national security digital transformation lead.<\/li>\n<li>He has extensive experience within the DOD, including roles in the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security and AI development through Project Maven.<\/li>\n<li>Stanley succeeds Dr. Douglas Matty, who led the CDAO office from April to December 2025, and Andrew Mapes, who has been acting CDAO since Matty\u2019s departure.<\/li>\n<li>Dr. Douglas Matty has transitioned to a new role as the DOD\u2019s chief technologist starting in December 2025.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pentagon Names Cameron Stanley Next AI Chief \u2013 MeriTalk https:\/\/meritalk.com\/articles\/pentagon-names-cameron-stanley-next-ai-chief\/ Publish Date: 2026-01-13 21:05:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":177737,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.meritalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/shutterstock_522855796-min.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-177736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177736"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":177738,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177736\/revisions\/177738"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}