Lieutenant General (ret.) John N.T. Shanahan

Inaugural Director of the Joint Artifical Intelligence Agency (JAIC)

Lt. Gen. John N.T. “Jack” Shanahan is the inaugural Director, Joint Artificial Intelligence Center, Office of the Department of Defense Chief Information Officer, the Pentagon, Arlington, Virginia. Lt. Gen. Shanahan is responsible for accelerating the delivery of AI-enabled capabilities, scaling the department-wide impact of AI, and synchronizing AI activities to expand joint force advantages.

Lt. Gen. Shanahan received his commission in 1984 as a distinguished graduate of the ROTC
program at the University of Michigan. He has served in a variety of flying, staff and command
assignments, most recently as the Director for Defense Intelligence (Warfighter Support), Office of
the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, the Pentagon, Arlington, Virginia. He was also the
Director of the Algorithmic Warfare Cross-Functional Team (Project Maven), where he established and led the department’s AI pathfinder fielding program charged with accelerating, augmenting, and automating intelligence collection and analysis.