Israel sets up new department to boost development of AI and autonomy
Israel will continue to develop autonomy for its weapons and platforms as it brings together defence personnel, academia and industry.
Rafael is well known for its military products – Singapore uses its Protector USV and SPYDER air defence systems, for example – but at the Milipol Asia 2019 exhibition in Singapore, the Israeli company was promoting its cybersecurity expertise.
Yuval Galili, marketing manager of Rafael’s ISTAR system directorate, told Shephard that Rafael prides itself on solving problems for customers, which is often the Israeli government. For example, Rafael developed the Iron Dome system in just two years to help overcome the problem of marauding rockets from Israel’s neighbours.
The same problem-solving mindset is being applied to the cybersecurity domain. Although
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Israel will continue to develop autonomy for its weapons and platforms as it brings together defence personnel, academia and industry.
Clavister CyberArmour, an integrated defence cybersecurity system, will be used on BAE Systems Hägglunds’ CV90 platform in deployments with a Scandinavian country, as well as in an eastern European nation.
The tactical satellite (TacSat) is an intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) system and will participate in exercises in 2025.
The airborne three-domain, the two ground-based and the ¼ ATR OpenVPX-based cross-domain systems were engineered to provide real-time security across multi-domain operations.
DARPA’s Mission-Integrated Network Control (MINC) programme was set up to develop an autonomous tactical network and enable critical data flow in contested environments.
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