For the second time in less than a year, General Dynamics’ [GD] Information Technologies division and Amazon Web Services [AMZN] demonstrated an integrated artificial intelligence and cloud computing solution to quickly sort through disparate data sources to provide situational awareness and speed decision-making to contend with aerial threats, including unmanned systems.
The companies demonstrated their co-developed Defense Operations Grid-Mesh Accelerator (DOGMA) solution last August at the Defense Department’s Technology Readiness Experimentation (T-REX) 24-2 event, and again this spring at T-REX 25-1.
DOGMA brings together AI and cloud capabilities with satellite connectivity to streamline data processing and analysis in support of air defense.
The solution reduced the time for decision-making tasks from 30 minutes to three seconds, they said.
“With the DOGMA solution, we enabled analysts to access the data they needed, pass it to other collaborators and perform analytics at scale at the edge and in the cloud,” the companies said.
During the 2024 T-REX, the industry team first demonstrated DOGMA for speeding data processing and decision-making for helping to maintain air dominance, and then was asked to expand its capabilities for monitoring UAS, which they did by retraining their monitoring models in less than a week. GDIT and AWS also were tasked to demonstrate DOGMA at the edge, and provided this capability in several days, getting real-time data from an antenna feed to an edge compute platform.
DOGMA tracked more than 350 commercial aircraft and unmanned aircraft systems, and analyzed nearly nine million aircraft position measurements to predict where the aircraft were going, the companies said.
In T-REX 25-1, DOGMA integrated 16 different data sources to create a common operating picture across eight event locations, the companies said earlier this month. The solution “delivered resilient and secure edge-to-cloud connectivity and allowed mission partners to successfully demonstrate their autonomy capabilities,” they said.
The DoD Office of Research and Engineering manages T-REX to give the department and vendors an opportunity to assess the technical maturity of defense technologies, helping pave the way for potential use in larger exercises, and to receive government contracts.