MICROSOFT
Across a range of use cases , AI can be used to drive efficiencies and provide defence organisations with a competitive edge . A popular term in modern defence organisations , the “ OODA loop ” involves four steps : to observe , orient , decide , and act . AI , when used properly , can be harnessed to augment and accelerate that process , particularly when considering the massive amounts of data available to any modern defence force .
“ What we ’ re trying to do is help our customers figure out how to use AI to speed up that OODA loop . We talk to our customers about capabilities like predictive maintenance for an informed readiness posture ; about modelling and simulation of threats , and of the operational environment itself ; for mission planning ; for speech and text translation – especially when they ’ re working with allies who may not have the same native tongue ; and multi-intelligence ( INT ) fusion and processing for situational awareness .
“ All of these use cases touch the OODA loop in some way , and all of them can be informed and augmented by AI . And I ’ m not even talking about generative AI - all of these can be accomplished with baseline ‘ flavours ’ of artificial intelligence – or even data analytics , much of which has already been around for years .”
From there , organisations can begin to utilise more advanced techniques , including generative AI – with capabilities including content generation , summarisation and information discovery , code generation , and semantic search .
“ With generative AI , the aperture has widened in terms of AI capability and opportunity . We are talking to defence organisations and the defence industrial base ( DIB ) about how to leverage these capabilities to support the mission , as well as to improve operations in their own enterprises .
For example , code generation : there are hundreds of thousands of software developers supporting the allied defence ecosystem , writing millions of lines of code each year . Can we use generative AI to help increase their speed and effectiveness – such as with Copilot for GitHub , as an example ? That , in turn , would result in faster time-to-value to get capabilities in the hands of the warfighter . ‘ Innovation at the speed of relevance ,’ as we say in defence . That ’ s what it ’ s all about .”
34 July 2023