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Algorithms to Enable Instant Information to Warriors

Dec 14, 2019

photo illust US National GUard — Soldiers of the Indiana National Guard’s 76th Infantry Brigade Combat Team charge into the fight during a training assault for Orient Shield 2018. Orient Shield is an annual, bilateral, tactical field training exercise cohosted by the Japan Ground Self - Defense Force and U.S. Army Pacific Command. This marks the 33rd iteration of this exercise designed to enhance U.S. and Japan’s combat readiness and interoperability at the tactical level while strengthening bilateral relationships and demonstrating U.S. resolve to support the security interests of friends and allies in the region. (U.S. Army Photo by Public Affairs Broadcast Journalist Spc. Joshua A. Syberg / Released)

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Getting information to soldiers during battle in seconds can not only decide victory or defeat but save lives. What if AI-enabled computer programs were able to instantly discern specifics regarding the threat such as location, weapons and affiliation by performing real-time analytics on drone feeds and other fast-moving sources of information, instantly sending crucial data to soldiers in combat?

Operating in a matter of milliseconds, AI-empowered computer algorithms could bounce new information off vast databases of previously compiled data to make these distinctions–instantly informing soldiers caught in crossfire.

An autonomous data assimilation from various systems can now be provided to command decision-makers and individual Soldiers.

Much of this work centered upon near and far-term applications of AI is being done by the US ARL’s Cognition and Neuroergonomics Collaborative Technology Alliance.

In any event, AI and autonomy are intended to massively improve the soldier decision-making process and not replace the crucial and much need faculties unique to human cognition. The idea is to have AI-enabled technical systems perform instant procedural functions able to instantly inform humans operating in a role of command and control.

According to the “Soldier as a System” approach, a single electronic architecture will connect night vision goggles, individual weapon sites, wearable computers, and handheld devices showing moving digital maps and time-critical intelligence data.

Information from all of these otherwise separate soldier technologies, which can also include acoustic and optical sensors or mobile power sources, such as batteries, is naturally interdependent and interwoven in crucial battlefield circumstances. Therefore, an ability to use various applications of autonomy and AI to create instant information-sharing in war changes the tactical and strategic circumstances confronted by individual soldiers, massively improving prospects for survival, according to foxnews.com..