National-security AI needs a research commons
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and National Science Foundation (NSF), working with the Center for Artificial Intelligence Standards and Innovation (CAISI), have introduced Artificial Intelligence Forge (AI Forge). The program identifies research challenges in interpretability, control, and adversarial robustness for national-security artificial intelligence.
The initiative addresses a structural gap. Commercial models are advancing rapidly, but many defense problems are too specialized, sensitive, long-horizon, or precompetitive to attract sustained private investment on their own.