AI and Machine Learning are helping develop a database on Russian tactics.

Satellite imagery combined with AI is helping the Pentagon to get a ringside view of the Russia-Ukraine war through the analysis of vast amounts of data to generate valuable battlefield intelligence. The system also enables the DoD to glean useful insights into Russian warfare strategy and tactics. (Defense One)

A DoD official, Maynard Holiday, said at Defense One’s Genius Machine’s AI summit on Thursday: “What you’re not seeing is our exquisite intelligence capabilities that are able to oversee the battlefield,” including gathering and archiving signals intelligence.

Holiday said the Pentagon will conduct an after-action analysis of the data obtained regarding Russian warfare strategy and put it inside a database that could be used in the future for training and war games.

According to Gregory Allen, who leads the AI Governance Project and is a senior fellow at the strategic technologies program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the military had begun applying AI models that analyzed drone footage to satellite imagery from war zones.

This process had been found to be quite useful for monitoring the Ukraine battle.

“Artificial intelligence [and] machine learning has become an increasingly capable and increasingly widespread factor in United States intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance operations,” Allen said. “The United States Department of Defense and our allies are taking advantage of what’s been built over the past five years.”

AI-enabled analysis from Ukraine would help the Pentagon model and anticipate the real-world moves that adversaries such as China and Russia could make in a future war, for example in 2025 or 2030.

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