MCO 5231.4 governs Marine Corps data and artificial intelligence policy, governance, workforce roles, and related capabilities.
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It establishes service-level data and AI governance, defines data and AI workforce roles, and addresses authoritative data sources and data management. It requires responsible AI capabilities, data visibility and security, and training for data-centric and AI-enabled work.
The Marine Corps must develop data and AI technologies, solutions, and governance; and educate and train its personnel in these capabilities in order to create, share, comprehend, and leverage data and AI to increase the speed, effectiveness, accuracy, and efficiency of decisionmaking processes at all echelons throughout the cooperation, competition, and conflict continuum. (paragraph 3)
Responsible for mission and business data-related tasks such as acquiring, collecting, tagging, and processing data, and granting individual users’ access to additional information beyond general systems, applications, and file permissions to perform such functions where appropriate in accordance with reference (an). (paragraph 5)
Responsible for maintaining systems; ensuring availability, integrity, and confidentiality of data within the system; and providing appropriate system access to data consumers and producers per reference (at). (paragraph 7)
Responsible for protecting data resources from unauthorized discovery, access, use, modification, and/or destruction.
A plan that documents how specific data will be collected, processed, used, and curated to facilitate long-term data management decisions and actions. (paragraph 5)