UK-based AI software developer Adarga has been awarded a contract from the British Army to implement its Knowledge Platform into The Field Army to enhance information handling.
According to Adarga, the software platform will enable the Army to use the growing amount of data at its disposal at a speed and scale to maximise its effectiveness on operations. The multimillion-pound, multi-year software licence is the Field Army’s first deployment of AI in day-to-day use.
The AI platform will be deployed by the army for an extended Capability Concept Demonstrator. This follows the recent Integrated Review in which the UK government committed to investing in new and emerging technologies to modernise defence capability and enable the UK to maintain a competitive edge.
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Adarga’s AI platform is designed to enable the Army to solve complex data problems and digitise otherwise time and knowledge intensive tasks. Mission critical insights and hidden data connections can be identified by the platform in seconds, presenting information that may have otherwise been missed or would have required weeks to find through human analysis.
Furthermore, the system combines a variety of data formats from across a range of disparate Army sources and data repositories, integrating these with other real-world, open-source data in a single software platform. It uses high-fidelity AI models, trained to understand and analyse complex defence and national security data, to convert data sources and incoming, real-time information feeds into readily accessible knowledge.
Robert Bassett Cross, CEO of Adarga, said:“In today’s competitive and uncertain world, data and information are more of a strategic asset than ever before. Making sense of and understanding all of this available information underpins everything the British Army does and is vital to the success or failure of operations.
“Adarga is proud to be supporting the British Army in this first important, real-world application of AI. Harnessing AI technology provides Army users with a powerful capability to overcome the challenges of more traditional time and knowledge intensive methods of enabling understanding and highlights the Army’s innovative approach and ambition to meet the challenges of a rapidly evolving operating environment.”
Users will be provided with interface in which to explore information including videos and foreign language documents that have been transcribed and translated by the platform. Along with visualisations of topics of interest such as event timelines, network builders, graphs and maps, machine-generated document summaries and reports.
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