  We are entering our tenth year of the current Artificial Intelligence (AI)
spring, and, as with previous AI hype cycles, the threat of an AI winter looms.
AI winters occurred because of ineffective approaches towards navigating the
technology valley of death. The 6-D framework provides an end-to-end framework
to successfully navigate this challenge. The 6-D framework starts with problem
decomposition to identify potential AI solutions, and ends with considerations
for deployment of AI-enabled systems. Each component of the 6-D framework and a
precision medicine use case is described in this paper.
