# Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO)
**Aliases:** Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office
**Entity class:** Organization or institution
**Collections:** [[collections/War With Empire|War With Empire]] · [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]]
## Definition
**Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO)** is an organization or institution. [[wiki/OTA HQ0883-25-9-0012|OTA HQ0883-25-9-0012]] is associated with **Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO)**. The entry centers on the organization's documented work, partners, users, and institutional lineage, so its own role remains distinct from the roles of adjacent programs and technologies.
## Relationships
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This entry is routed through [[collections/War With Empire|War With Empire]] and [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]]. Its source context is developed in [[articles/The Next Interface Layer|The Next Interface Layer]] and [[articles/The Magic Kingdom and the Managed State|The Magic Kingdom and the Managed State]]. Status-qualified source edges are preserved in the terminal Research Edges section.
### Additional Documented Relationships
- [[wiki/OTA HQ0883-25-9-0012|OTA HQ0883-25-9-0012]] is associated with **Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO)**.
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## Research Edges
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#### Interface and soft-sovereignty graph patch — 2026-09-10
**Resolved aliases:** `Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office`
**Collections:** [[collections/War With Empire|War With Empire]] · [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]]
**Relationship source:** [[research/Interface and Soft Sovereignty Ecosystem Relationship Graph - 2026-09-10|Interface and Soft Sovereignty Ecosystem Relationship Graph — 2026-09-10]]
**Related source articles:** [[articles/The Next Interface Layer|The Next Interface Layer]] · [[articles/The Magic Kingdom and the Managed State|The Magic Kingdom and the Managed State]]
#### Incoming typed edges
- **Edge 451 — [[wiki/OTA HQ0883-25-9-0012|OTA HQ0883-25-9-0012]] `awarding_office` → this entry** — **VERIFIED**; evidence `DOD_OPENAI`, `OPENAI_GENAI`.
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