Using AI to improve intelligence gathering

HANSCOM AIR FORCE BASE, Mass. Two members of the Digital Directorate's Command, Control, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance division at Robins Air Force Base, Georgia, collaborated with personnel from the Air Force Research Laboratory and Air Combat Command to see if real time analytics, or RTA, could act as an assistant to DCGS analysts. "Operational analysts have so much data to look at, and it's coming at them fast and furious," said Dr. Chris "Jake" Jacobson, solutions architect and product owner from ACC. "We wanted to see if we could use RTA to help with that overwhelming amount of data streaming at the analysts." RTA is an open, modular IT platform that acts as a harness to host AI and ML algorithms. Users identified full motion video, or FMV, as an initial area where they thought this could provide benefits.