Today's battlefield environment is complex, dynamic and uncertain, and requires efficient support to ensure mission success. This relies on a proper support strategy to provide supported equipment able to fulfill the mission. In the context of defense where both systems and organization are complex, having a holistic approach is challenging by nature, forces and support agencies need to rely on an efficient decision support system. Logistics, readiness and sustainability are critical factors for asset management, which can benefit from AI to reach "Smart In Service" level relying especially on predictive and prescriptive approaches and on effective management of operational re-sources. Smart Support capacities can be then monitored by appropriate metrics and improved by multi-criteria decision support and knowledge management system. Depending on the operational context in terms of information and the objective, different AI paradigms (data-driven AI, knowledge-based AI) are suitable even a combination through hybrid AI.

All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. As the world becomes increasingly reliant on technology, organizations have to consider the growing threats to their supply chain. Goldman Sachs principal engineer Michael Mattioli and AMD CTO Mark Papermaster spoke about this issue at VentureBeat's virtual Transform 2021 conference last week. They stressed that this is not a problem any single company can solve alone -- changing the ecosystem will require industrywide collaboration. The supply chain is "remarkably complex," Mattioli said, as it goes all the way back to the design of the chip or board, which is then sent to the foundry to be manufactured.