Simon Newton
Ukraine has taught Western militaries many lessons - and one of the biggest is the huge and growing importance of cyber.
This involves harnessing AI and new software to develop a digital targeting web, a system designed to speed up the flow of battlefield information and enable commanders to target any threats far more quickly.
Cyber expert Rob Black told BFBS Forces News: "I would imagine that there's a lot of sensors already out there and a lot of information already out there, and this web is about how we process it.
"So I'd imagine it's a combination of capabilities – a fusion of data sources, collecting that information at speed, at scale, without even needing to be a technical wizard.
"You can imagine the challenge of getting information from a ship sitting off the coast of Ukraine. There's processing information over the battlefield that is currently in Ukraine and Donetsk.
"For example, can that information be processed by a ship, sending it back to an operational headquarters, sharing it with a targeting team or an artillery team or whatever team it might be?
"You could just imagine how challenging that is to keep the consistency of the understanding of that information and keep that appreciation, that collective sense-making across all the different teams.
"So this is a challenge – and a critical operational challenge – for any military capability."
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