Why we need AI within Defence

In today’s multi-domain battlespace, decision speed and quality – especially in multinational and civil-military settings – are crucial. Data overload demands not more information, but faster, trusted insight. 

Airbus Defence and Space delivers human-centred, AI-supported solutions that enhance operational superiority across ISR, cyber or decision-making needs. 

Our trusted Artificial Intelligence addresses important requirements including:
- trusted data
- managing threats and data overload
- seamless integration
- rapid deployment
- in-field adaptation
- ethical AI 

Built on open, vendor-agnostic architectures, our solutions integrate with legacy, current and future C5ISR systems. 

From satellite intelligence to cyber defence, we enable mission success across domains – by empowering people with trusted, responsible AI.

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Empowering humans with trusted AI

We don’t replace humans – we augment their intelligence, accelerating the OODA Loop and enabling faster, confident decisions.

Aligned with the EU AI Act, ALTAI, and international law, all solutions ensure transparency, auditability, and human oversight. 

How our AI-supported solutions address critical needs

Our solutions address critical needs in modern warfare, ensuring trust, managing data overload, delivering accelerated results and maintaining ethical standards for decisive mission success.

Trusted Data & Trusted AI

We train AI on verified, secure and traceable data from real operations or high-fidelity simulations. This ensures trusted AI from sensor input to usable information.

Managing Data Overload & Integration

Vendor-agnostic AI-supported solutions integrate seamlessly with legacy, current and future C5ISR systems, turning overwhelming data streams into unified, actionable intelligence.

Speed & Adaptation

From rapid prototyping to deployment, we accelerate time-to-mission and enable real-time adaptation, ensuring operational relevance in dynamic, high-pressure scenarios.

Our AI-driven solutions

From data to decision: unlock optimised performance for Multi-Domain Operations to accelerate mission success.

Intelligence: from data to trusted insight

Our AI-powered intelligence solutions turn vast, heterogeneous data into actionable insight. The AI powered Fortion® Massive Intelligence suite provides you with a complete intelligence picture faster, with higher accuracy, and with larger amounts of data than previously possible. Modules cover OSINT, IMINT & GEOINT, SIGINT, and HUMINT for data fusion and analysis. 
As examples, VISIO identifies military aircraft and vessels in satellite imagery, while STAM automates persistent site monitoring. Fake News Detection helps analysts identify disinformation across open sources. 
All capabilities are integrated into a Common Intelligence Picture – accelerating analysis, reducing bias, and uncovering hidden patterns while ensuring human oversight.

Surveillance & Reconnaissance: real-time situational awareness

Maintain continuous awareness in complex, dynamic environments. SuRVIn ABI applies AI to real-time sensor data across domains, detecting anomalies and predicting behaviours to support Activity-Based Intelligence. KITU enables autonomous control of heterogeneous drone swarms, trained via ReLeGSim, for persistent land-based surveillance with minimal operator input. Both solutions reduce cognitive load and deliver timely, cross-domain insights – ensuring faster orientation and response.

Decision Superiority: for a faster and smarter mission execution

We empower commanders and planners that accelerate decision-making. ReLeGSim simulates thousands of multi-domain scenarios in minutes, enabling rapid evaluation of tactical options. KITCH uses LLMs and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) to deliver natural-language interaction with tactical systems – automating workflows, answering complex queries and reducing decision time. These tools enhance human judgment under pressure, ensuring faster and more informed decisions across the OODA loop – always with humans in control.

Enabling technologies: secure, sovereign AI foundations

Our advanced AI capabilities are built on secure, mission-ready core technologies. They integrate large language models into offline, classified environments – enabling trusted, hallucination-free support for report generation or tactical analysis. Our solutions ensure sovereign, transparent, and interoperable AI – designed for defence-specific challenges.

Defending the digital domain: ensuring cyber resilience and enabling cyber operations

AI-driven operations require cyber-secure foundations. For comprehensive cyber solutions, including threat detection and cognitive defence, visit our dedicated Cyber Defence website to explore how we secure the digital domain.

Your advantages with our AI-supported solutions

Accelerated decision and implementation speed

We shorten the sensor-to-decision cycle by providing solutions that automate analysis or supporting decision-making by simulating scenarios in minutes. This accelerates the OODA loop and ensures rapid fielding of capabilities, allowing you to decide and act faster.

Highest quality results

Our AI combines Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) with verified, traceable data to prevent hallucinations and ensure factual accuracy. By analysing vast datasets from real operations or simulations, it detects anomalies and patterns humans might miss – delivering trusted, bias-free intelligence. Our solutions fuse multi-source insights into a Common Intelligence Picture, turning complex data into actionable, reality-grounded decisions.

Maximum operational efficiency

We augment human intelligence to manage data overload and accelerate mission execution. By automating analysis, fusing multi-domain data and supporting the selection of optimal implementation options, our AI enables faster, more efficient decisions. Seamless integration with C5ISR systems enhances workflows without costly overhauls – ensuring missions are executed with maximum precision and resource efficiency.

 

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Enabling the full operational chain

Seamless connectivity and secure communication link sensors, command systems and effectors across domains enabling real-time data exchange and coordinated action.

Operational support functions - from training and logistics to maintenance - ensure that systems function effectively and sustainably in the field.

We are actively developing future capabilities in these areas to ensure end-to-end readiness in Multi-Domain Operations.

 

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