US Pacific Forces Are Using AI To Track Chinese and Russian Moves
By Patrick Tucker Technology Editor Read bio
September 3, 2019
Right now, they're building a picture of normal traffic. Next, they'll look for suspicious patterns — and even predict what's coming.
HONOLULU—On the site of the most infamous sneak attack in American history, U.S. Pacific Air Forces is collating tens of millions of radar contacts and other data in a bid to stave off a latter-day surprise — and even reveal the adversary’s weaknesses.
Airmen and researchers at PACAF’s Pearl Harbor headquarters are using the data — as old as a year and as new as real-time — to draw up a portrait of normal air traffic in the vast Pacific region. Ultimately, that should make it easier to spot abnormal events, such as an impending attack, the deputy chief of PACAF’s C3 Integration Division said at the Defense One-Nextgov Genius Machines event here last Tuesday.
https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2019/09/exclusive-pacific-how-military-using-ai-and-radar-data-predict-china-and-russias-next-move/159609/
