Thales Expedites AI Development for the Defense Sector

The defense landscape is evolving rapidly with the surge of battlefield data, tapping into civilian technology applications like personal assistants, video analysis, and noise reduction. Leveraging its decade-long investments in AI, Thales has been integrating AI into critical systems, empowering its clientele to gain an edge amidst data inundation and threats.

Patrice Caine, Chairman and CEO of Thales, emphasized the company’s prowess in AI mastery and its assets, including technological expertise across defense, aerospace, space, cybersecurity, and digital identity. Thales is advancing embeddable, efficient, secure, and explainable end-to-end AI solutions, catering to the security and sovereignty requisites of its clientele.

cortAIx, Thales’s trusted AI accelerator, is introduced during the fourth Thales Media Day, aimed at broadening AI integration across its sectors, encompassing defense, space, aerospace, cybersecurity, and digital identity. cortAIx includes cortAIx Lab, a top-tier lab for critical AI in Europe, cortAIx Factory for rapid AI development tools classification, and cortAIx Sensors, enhancing AI capabilities in defense sensors.

Thales addresses AI security challenges through its Cybersecure AI initiative, featuring specific assessment methodologies at its CESTI laboratory, certified by ANSSI, to counter cybersecurity threats effectively. Trusted AI integrated into Thales’s critical systems enhances operators’ efficiency in detecting, identifying, and classifying targets, spanning various domains like air reconnaissance, maritime patrol, air defense, and air traffic control.

AI advancements in Thales’s solutions range from real-time analysis of optronics images in air reconnaissance missions to cyber crash-testing AI-based solutions for system cybersecurity enhancement. AI also optimizes aircraft sequencing in air traffic control systems, facilitates multi-drone and multi-robot coordination, and streamlines tactical mission preparation for helicopter pilots. Additionally, AI enhances sound quality in military radios while ensuring device autonomy.

Thales’s commitment to AI innovation underscores its dedication to bolstering defense capabilities and operational efficiency, thus contributing significantly to the evolving defense landscape.