Industry Collaborating to Optimise Tactical Decision Advantage through TacCIS and AI Integration

“We have got to pull the future of fighting power into the present…we have got to hunt for advantage, forage lethality from wherever we can find it…”

The Chief of the General Staff (CGS) has directed the British Army to “double its fighting power in three years and triple it by the end of the decade”. This is a direct response to the evolving threat emerging from the conflict in Ukraine, where we have seen a distinct shift from an era of network-centric to data-centric tactical communications and information systems. 

The UK’s ability to transition to the data-centric era will determine who wins or loses future conflicts.

Tactical communications in this new era will need to be adaptable and interoperable, easy to integrate with, and able to optimise to work within bandwidth constrained and intermittently connected networks.

This article examines how the collaboration between General Dynamics and Helsing is leveraging their respective areas of expertise to offer the British Army an unfair advantage on the battlefield. It provides their perspective on how enhancing the Bowman network – a major component of British Army communication systems – with advanced AI capabilities will allow our forces to synchronise their activities with tempo, avoid duplication, uphold data integrity, and deploy resources at pace.

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