Pentagon AI chief praises Palantir tech for speeding battlefield strikes

As the US continues its strikes on Iran as part of Operation Epic Fury, speakers at Palantir's AIPCON event on Thursday said the company’s Maven Smart System product has shortened the time it takes the Department of Defense to select and hit targets on the battlefield during the conflict.

“So we’ve gone from identifying the target to now coming up with a course of action, to now actioning that target, all from one system. This is revolutionary,” said Cameron Stanley, chief digital and artificial intelligence officer for the DoD. “We were having this done in about eight or nine systems where humans were literally moving detections left and right in order to get to our desired end state, in this case closing a kill chain.”

Palantir’s chief commercial officer Ted Mabrey told the AIPCON audience that the analytics software company is supporting Operation Epic Fury.

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