2018 AFCEA TechNet Augusta Conference and Expo

Solution Review 1: "Operational AI for Battlespace Mission Command" (Room Estes A)

21 Aug 18
3:00 PM - 3:20 PM

Tracks: Solution Reviews

C6ISR systems are creating exponentially increasing amounts of data; however, less than 5% of that data is currently being leveraged for decisions within the battlespace. The current status of the suite of mission command information systems is effective at collecting, storing, and displaying operational information. These capabilities are limited by their suite's inability to provide military leadership with a shared understanding of the environment by processing and turning data into knowledge automatically. To accelerate decision-making by Commanders and their staffs, we operationalize artificial intelligence techniques using our Scaling Humans with AI (Shai) tactical platform. Our Shai solution is capable of ingesting various types of data residing in multiple, highly distributed, DoD environments, platforms, and sensors, thus providing that missing capability. This is needed to overcome limitations and improve situational awareness, especially as the number of sensors and amount of data collected continues to grow and outpace human capabilities, bandwidth, and stamina. Shai can overcome these limitations by innovatively logging into each C6ISR systems as a human, carefully watch and learn the battlespace, and provide domain knowledge, insights, and intelligence fusion information to warfighters during the conduct of operations. Using benchmarks from other Shai programs, we expect a 20-fold improvement as compared to a human's measured ability to create actionable intelligence and produce operational information.