Can Army Intel Data Feed The Kill Chain?
To find targets for its new long-range weapons, the Army is experimenting with cloud computing and AI that can bridge the gap between intelligence networks and combat units.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. on August 14, 2020 at 10:05 AM
WASHINGTON: On the future battlefield, “data is the holy grail,†says Brig. Gen. Robert Collins. But for the Army, like King Arthur and Indiana Jones, actually getting the grail is a daunting quest.
One of the biggest challenges for Collins, the Army’s new acquisition chief for tactical networks (aka PEO-C3T)? Getting data on potential targets from intelligence systems to combat units fast enough to strike them with the new long-range artillery and high-speed helicopters now in development. Digitally connecting the widest possible range of “sensors†to “shooters†in this way is the focus of Army Futures Command’s Project Convergence experiment starting this fall.
The types of data you want to access, Collins and other officers told a Potomac Officers’ Club webinar on Tuesday, range from full-motion video to electronic warfare detections of enemy transmitters. Quickly pooling that many kinds of data, from that many different sources, will require heavy use of artificial intelligence and cloud computing.
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