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Ministry of Defence: Artificial Intelligence

Question for Ministry of Defence

UIN 6110, tabled on 11 December 2023

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 16 November 2023 to Question 1447 on Ministry of Defence: Artificial Intelligence, what the annual budget for the Defence AI Centre was in the (a) 2022-23 and (b) 2023-24 financial year.

Answered on

14 December 2023

The DAIC currently has a core team of 39 Full Time Equivalent crown servants drawn from across Defence, with plans to grow the Strategic Command element of the team by a further 22 Full Time Equivalent crown servants.

Departmental spend on AI is difficult to calculate, as cost data is typically integrated within broader programme costs.

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