Less has been said about the use of artificial intelligence in the Ukraine War than about anti-tank missiles, but the Pentagon is quietly using AI and machine-learning tools to analyze vast amounts of data, generating useful battlefield intelligence. doing, and learning about it. Russian strategy and tactics, a senior Defense Department official said on Thursday.
What you’re not seeing is “our excellent intelligence capabilities capable of monitoring the battlefield,” said Maynard Holiday, director of engineering for Defense Research and Modernization, “including collecting and storing signals.”
“We will certainly do a post-action analysis of everything we see in relation to the Russian strategy,” Holliday said Thursday at the AI Summit of Defense One’s Genius Machines. Train and then war game. ,
How much battlefield intelligence the US is providing to Ukraine is a matter of conjecture. The United States is not operating drones in Ukraine, but commercial satellite companies have made large quantities of images and images available to the public. Also on Thursday, Gregory Allen, who leads the AI Governance Project and is a senior fellow in the Strategic Technology Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, reported that footage collected from drones can help find and track specific objects. Army’s AI Tools for. It has come a long way in the last several years. And the military has started doing the same with satellite images.
Allen said military AI has come a long way since 2017, when the public learned about Project Maven, the military’s object recognition program.
“artificial intelligence [and] Machine learning has become an increasingly enabling and increasingly pervasive factor in United States intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance operations,” he said. It has been quite useful to keep track of what is happening in Ukraine. “The United States Department of Defense and our allies are taking advantage of what has been built over the past five years.”
In other words, applying advanced AI tools to publicly available imagery is producing vital information to help the Ukrainian military thwart Russian attacks.
Data from this war will help the military better model and predict how an advanced adversary will behave in the real world, particularly Russia and China. This is something that military leaders have said needs to start now.
Holiday said he was working on that with the Naval Information Warfare Center, Pacific in San Diego, Calif. The Center’s Battlespace Exploit of Mixed Reality Lab is trying to understand how rapidly advancing technology will shape adversarial behavior. Most combat games focus on current technology and behavior.
The United States must be able to change over time to see what the Pentagon and near-peer opponents will have in 2025 or 2030, he said.
You know, we’ll be able to imagine all of that for leadership and then for multifactor analysis between our different technology areas.
Russia’s poor performance in Ukraine and severe sanctions imposed on the country by Western states suggest that Russian AI development will slow – but not stop.
“Even if the Russian economy and even the tech ecosystem continue to be battered by sanctions, this will not stop the MLD from thinking that the war will end in one way or another. What could these concepts mean afterward,” Samuel Bendet, an adjunct senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security and Advisory at CNA Corporation, said Thursday.
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