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The US wants to push its view of AI cybersecurity standards to the rest of the world<\/a><\/p>\n

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Publish Date: 2026-02-02 12:12:00<\/a><\/p>\n

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The U.S. government wants the rest of the world to adopt its artificial intelligence cybersecurity standards, a top official with the Office of the National Cyber Director said Thursday. As part of an effort to advance American AI, the administration will be \u201cundertaking diplomacy efforts to promote American AI cybersecurity standards and norms, establishing industry best practices for secure AI deployment and harnessing the full potential of AI tools,\u201d said Alexandra Seymour, principal deputy assistant national cyber director for policy. Seymour\u2019s comments at the 2026 Identity, Authentication, and the Road Ahead Policy Forum in Washington, D.C. partially reflect the Trump administration\u2019s AI Action Plan released last summer, which said the departments of Commerce and State would \u201cvigorously advocate for international AI governance approaches that promote innovation, reflect American values, and counter authoritarian influence,\u201d but doesn\u2019t explicitly mention international promotion of cybersecurity standards. Some of that effort has already materialized, with internationally oriented guides released in both May and December. The United States also isn\u2019t the only one looking to influence international standards for AI security. AI also figures into the yet-to-be-released national cybersecurity strategy that Seymour\u2019s office has been developing. And it dovetails with a pillar of the strategy focused on defending federal networks. Seymour said: \u201cWhile AI is already helping industries enhance security and address the challenge of escalating cyberattacks, this administration will promote the rapid implementation of AI-enabled cyber defensive tools to detect, divert and deceive threat actors who continue targeting our vital systems and sectors on our federal systems. We must get our house in order. They need rapid modernization, and we\u2019re working on policies to harden our networks, update our technologies and ensure we\u2019re prepared for a post-quantum future.\u201d<\/p>\n

The six senior officials appointed by Pentagon leadership to oversee its recently restructured \u201ccritical technology areas\u201d overseen by the CTO and accelerate the military\u2019s adoption of each of those top-priority capabilities were officially announced last week. Posts on Instagram and X from official accounts for the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering and Chief Technology Officer spotlighted brief bios for each of those \u201caccountable senior officials\u201d who will lead the Defense Department\u2019s new CTAs. \u201cThe six CTAs are department-wide imperatives designed to maintain American military dominance \u2014 and now, each one will have accountable leaders leading the tangible \u2018sprints\u2019 under each CTA. Each sprint will be designed to deliver advanced capabilities to our warfighters rapidly and at scale,\u201d the posts stated. For years the Pentagon has grappled with long-standing challenges that have stymied the military\u2019s pursuits to integrate emerging technologies across the back office and in operational settings. The DOD\u2019s list of critical technology areas has included the most pressing challenges and capabilities needed for modern warfare since it was conceptualized. In November, Pentagon CTO and Undersecretary for R&E Emil Michael revealed his plan to trim the department\u2019s list of 14 CTAs established during the Biden administration down to six, with renamed categories. The focus areas in the updated catalog include: applied artificial intelligence; biomanufacturing; contested logistics technologies; quantum and battlefield information dominance; scaled directed energy; and scaled hypersonics. According to the social media posts and their online bios, the six appointees are: Applied Artificial Intelligence (AAI) \u2014 Cameron Stanley, a former national security transformation lead for AWS and chief of the DOD Algorithmic Warfare Cross Functional Team (previously known as Project Maven), who was also recently hired as the department\u2019s Chief Digital and AI Officer; Biomanufacturing (BIO) \u2014 Dr. Gary Vora, the Navy\u2019s former principal scientist for biotechnology, who also initiated and led the Naval Research Lab\u2019s basic research efforts in the microbiological sciences; Contested Logistics Technologies (LOG) \u2014 Dr. Robert Mantz, who has more than four decades of federal service, including senior roles at the Army Research Office and DARPA; Quantum and Battlefield Information Dominance (Q-BID) \u2014 Dr. Kevin Rudd, a specialist in electronic warfare, radar, RF systems and advanced sensing, who previously served at DARPA and the Office of Naval Research; Scaled Directed Energy (SCADE) \u2014 Dr. Christopher Vergien, an expert in DE and national defense technology, who previously served at the Air Force Office of Scientific Research and the Defense Threat Reduction Agency; Scaled Hypersonics (SHY) \u2014 Dr. James Weber, an engineer with more than 30 years of experience in the research and development of hypersonic systems, including at the Air Force Research Lab. The Pentagon has not yet released a detailed plan for the CTA\u2019s forthcoming \u201ctangible\u201d technology sprints.<\/p>\n

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