Artificial Intelligence in Air Operations Planning Process

Abstract

It is widely believed that the world is on the brink of another military revolution. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is about to transform the characteristics and, to a certain degree, even the nature, of warfare, as aircraft, tanks, gun power and the atomic bomb did in the previous era. AI is defined as the development of computer systems able to perform tasks that normally require human intelligence, at lightning speed, such as decision-making, automated data analysis, providing solutions with options for choice, speech recognition, visual perception and translation between languages. While AI is already being used for the development of tactical war-fighting
systems, more opportunities exist towards utilisation of AI in the strategic and operational planning process in air operations. It is important to harness this technology for use in the strategic and operational planning processes as well.