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Drew Cukor Reforms DoD AI Acquisition Practices
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Marine Colonel Drew Cukor led Project Maven beginning in 2017 and used Broad Agency Announcements to procure AI software as research, development, test, and evaluation rather than a finished product. He argued vendors should retain platform IP while the government owns mission-specific configurations, but anonymous complaints and repeated IG investigations sullied his career and forced scrutiny of rapid vendor-driven acquisition practices.
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