How is India Using GenAI in Defence?
Back in 2018, India was one of the first countries to develop a national AI strategy, as part of which an AI task force was formed specifically for defence-related projects, resulting in the formation of the Defence AI Council (DAIC) and the Defence AI Project Agency. As part of this, as many as 40 generative AI products have apparently been developed as part of the task force.
In March this year, Army Chief General Manoj Pande stated that natural language processing, vehicle tracking, facial recognition and other autonomous systems were things that the Indian Army was currently working on as part of their generative AI capabilities.
Similarly, during the SPACE (SPace, Aerospace and defenCE) Conference 2024, Aeronautical Defense Agency (ADA) director Jitendra Jadav said that research on generative AI use for military aircraft was ongoing, though there were still several challenges to tackle.