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SENNELAGER, Germany – Multinational troops experimented with artificial intelligence software, sustainable power and communication information systems during Exercise STEADFAST LEDA 2021, a NATO exercise to increase interoperability and operational effectiveness in multidomain operations of warfare.
“The future battlefield is not just about the land domain,” said U.S. Army Brigadier General Phil Brooks, Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations at NATO’s Allied Rapid Reaction Corps. “We're experimenting with how we can plan and coordinate activities faster because in multiple domains, activities will occur faster and faster.”
Brooks leads a team of military planners, analysts and intelligence personnel, who assess and synchronize units and lethal and non-lethal combat capabilities for future operations in support of NATO goals to preserve peace and deter aggression in the North-Atlantic Region.
“The speed of information is ever increasing,” said Brooks. “There will be activities in air, space, the cyber arena, and the maritime domain, so we've got to be prepared to plan and execute our operations much faster.”
The four experiments delivered at the STLE21 tactical command posts, CP, in Germany and Poland ranged from decision making AI software and energy efficiency monitoring.
“This is all focused around exponential or revolutionary change in our battle rhythm, our procedures and effectively the size of our CPs,” said British Army Major Oliver Tagg, an exercise planner from the ARRC Plans Branch, who provides oversight of the experimentation delivered during the exercise. “We’re the first foray in the land environment and there's a lot of other headquarters who are interested in the findings of how we utilize this and what doors this will open for the future.”
Project ARTEMIS, in collaboration with Anduril Inc. who’ve worked with other defense agencies, supports targeting through the use of software to speed up decision making from ‘sensor to shooter’ and effect an outcome.
Tagg said there would be a significant change in the time it takes to identify an issue to effect results on the ground, while also reduce the number of staff required to input and analyze data, reducing the size of the command post.
Project LELANTOS, an ongoing project, is a Wi-Fi enabled tactical CP with a built-in communication information system to significantly reduce set-up and teardown times. LELANTOS is a combination of hardware and software to develop a new and more sustainable, maneuverable and protected CP.
Deployed Sustainable Power is a five-year project that started with data collection during exercises LOYAL LEDA 2020 and ARRCADE FUSION 2019, where the opportunity for hybrid generator and non-diesel solutions originated. The data will help maximize efficient use of power and identify sustainable options without impacting operational output, while also reducing the headquarters noise and heat signature.
Finally, the Organizational Learning Portal supports the U.K.’s Defence Science and Technology Laboratory development of an AI lessons collection portal. The initiative helps deliver an AI interview virtual assistant used to speak to individuals within the headquarters, identify how user friendly the software is, and collect lessons from the exercise.
Tagg said he’s enjoyed his involvement in the different innovative experiments and projects, which help achieve NATO defence goals.
“All of these are hopefully moving us towards a more efficient means of operating and will make us into a learning organisation,” said Tagg. “We need to get better at it. We need to get smaller. We need to get slicker. So being able to influence that, to a small extent, it's quite rewarding.”
| Date Taken: | 11.25.2021 |
| Date Posted: | 11.26.2021 07:29 |
| Story ID: | 410055 |
| Location: | SENNELAGER, DE |
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