The importance of AI for sonar technologies
Hardware superiority is no longer enough to guarantee a victory in modern warfare. The calculated and deliberate use of technology now provides significant opportunities to enhance and improve hardware systems, sensors and platforms. More than ever before, it is vital that we not only continue to invest in hardware but also consider how best to combine capabilities and deploy them in concert to gain a competitive advantage.
Increasing sensor capabilities are a direct manifestation of this. Higher volume, increased fidelity, data volumes collected from an increasing range of platforms and locations offer significant possible operational advantages. But in order to realise advantage in practice, data must be processed both accurately and at mission-relevant speeds. With such high volumes of data, this is beyond human capability. Artificial intelligence (AI) shows promise in helping organisations unlock the value of data, though many challenges must first be overcome to achieve this in practice.