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Official: Army’s TiC Is Opportunity To Get AI To ‘Tactical Edge,’ Predictive Analysis Is ‘Next Horizon’

Official: Army’s TiC Is Opportunity To Get AI To ‘Tactical Edge,’ Predictive Analysis Is ‘Next Horizon’
The 50th Expeditionary Signal Battalion (Enhanced) and 63rd Expeditionary Signal Battalion conducted a combined Large Scale Combat Operations (LSCO) communications exercise on Fort Bragg, North Carolina, September 29, 2021. (U.S. Army photo by Capt. Eric Messmer)

The Army sees the ongoing Transforming in Contact (TiC) initiative to rapidly field new capabilities as an opportunity to get after delivering more artificial intelligence capabilities “to the tactical edge,” a lead official has said. Andrew Evans, director of the Army’s Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Task Force, also cited predictive analysis as the “next horizon” for the service’s use of AI, noting a need to provide industry an opportunity to train their algorithms on “military-grade, potentially classified data.” “TiC is…

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