In a complex multi-service, multi-domain scenario — not typically covered in Air Force training — the best of several AI tools generated tactical “courses of action” not only faster than military professionals but also with fewer errors.
“The bubble is real,” said the founder of the Pentagon’s Joint AI Center, retired Lt. Gen. Jack Shanahan. “[But] for the DoD, there could be new opportunities to partner with all kinds of tech companies…if their commercial opportunities start to evaporate.”
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From the skies over Ukraine, to Chinese cyber attacks, to bureaucratic battlefields inside the Pentagon, artificial intelligence has grown from an experiment or niche product to an increasingly routine tool of military organizations.
Balancing security and access to data are critical to providing users with trustworthy, reliable data for real-time decisions.
In the debate of AI versus human pilots, ULA's Tory Bruno considers a compromise where AI supports warfighters rather than replace them.
"We’re deploying an AI-powered shipbuilding operating system across the maritime industrial base," Navy Secretary John Phelan told an audience alongside Palantir chief Alex Karp.
Reducing cognitive overload on warfighters while improving “time to trust” for autonomous systems is a matter of design.
Other “frontier AI capabilities” will join Gemini on the new GenAi.mil platform, meant to make generative AI tools available to all three million military and civilian personnel, the Department of Defense announced.
The product provides an AI-generated response, acting like a chatbot, that informs users on how warfighters performed during a training event based on data from the company’s exercise control (EXCON) software suite.
“It's early days,” said Amy Gilliland, president of General Dynamics Information Technology. “Right now, the battle that we are waging is education: It is about understanding what AI can do for you.”
The introduction of BAE’s capability into the exercises comes after the Army has been experimenting with other AI-aided target recognition tools during the 4th Infantry Division's Ivy Sting series of experiments.
Balancing security and access to data are critical to providing users with trustworthy, reliable data for real-time decisions.
"We believe that AI agents, [specifically the] new generation of AI capabilities could serve better and more efficiently the clients and the end users," TII CIO Chawki Kasmi told Breaking Defense
Modeling and simulation get an AI upgrade for more realistic training and improved autonomous platforms.
Get up to speed on the technologies reshaping US strategy in the Indo-Pacific, from networked warfare to artificial intelligence and 3D-printed drones.
Under the Sequoia program, the company will provide data labeling to allow artificial intelligence and machine learning systems to discriminate among objects.