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Artificial Intelligence used at sea for first time off coast of Scotland

Maritime June 9, 2021

For the first time, Artificial Intelligence (AI) was used by the Royal Navy at sea as part of Exercise Formidable Shield, which is currently taking place off the coast of Scotland. This Operational Experiment (OpEx) on the Type 45 Destroyer (HMS Dragon) and Type 23 Frigate (HMS Lancaster),  used the AI ...

DPRTE partner QinetiQ announce partnership delivering AI powered intelligence

Homeland June 9, 2021

Official DPRTE 2021 event partner, QinetiQ, and Adarga – one of the UK’s leading artificial intelligence (AI) software developers – have entered into a strategic partnership to use AI to harness the power of data for the defence and security markets. The partnership will combine Adarga’s leading enterprise AI analytics platform ...

Thales and Atos create JV to develop big data and AI for defence and security

Homeland May 28, 2021

Atos and Thales announce the creation of Athea, a joint venture that will develop a sovereign big data and artificial intelligence platform for public and private sector players in the defence, intelligence and internal state security communities. Athea will draw on the experience gained by both companies from the demonstration phase of the ARTEMIS programme, the big data platform of the French Ministry of Armed Forces. The contract to optimise and ...

Dstl selects CGI to develop AI network for DASA Intelligent Ship Phase 2 competition

Maritime April 9, 2021

Official DPRTE 2021 event partner, the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) has awarded CGI a contract to continue to develop an Artificial Intelligence (AI) network for the second phase of Intelligent Ship project. This project aims to understand the potential for AI to revolutionise military decision-making, mission planning and automation ...