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.
The Foundational Research in Electronic Warfare for Multi-Domain Operations (FREEDOM) programme, is looking closely at how EW can support Multi-Domain Operations (MDO).
The army defines MDO as using calibrated force posture, multi-domain formations and convergence. According to the 2018 report ‘The US Army in Multi-Domain Operations 2028’, calibrated force posture rests on the ability to manoeuvre at strategic distances. Formations will operate across multiple domains against near-peer adversaries, while convergence integrates these capabilities in all domains (sea, land, air and space), in the electromagnetic spectrum (EMS) and in the information environment.
FREEDOM, which began in March 2019 and is led
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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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