Lt Gen John N.T. “Jack” Shanahan is the Director, Joint Artificial Intelligence Center, Office of the
Department of Defense Chief Information Officer, the Pentagon, Arlington, Virginia. General
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.
General 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 led the
artificial intelligence pathfinder program charged with accelerating integration of big data, machine
learning, and artificial intelligence.


General Shanahan also served as the Commander, 25th Air Force, Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas, where he led 30,000 personnel in worldwide intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance operations and also served as the Commander of the Service Cryptologic Component. In this capacity he was responsible to the Director, National Security Agency, and Chief, Central Security Service, as the Air Force's sole authority for matters involving the conduct of cryptologic activities, including the spectrum of missions directly related to both tactical warfighting and national-level operations.