LAUREN C. WILLIAMS
WASHINGTON—The Pentagon has long sought to realize the potential of artificial intelligence to help commanders; now U.S. Indo-Pacific Command is about to use AI-powered decision aids in a signature tabletop exercise.
INDOPACOM will put its work on the Thunderforge project to use during the second half of its annual Pacific Sentry exercise, in which headquarters staff and command components square off against a simulated enemy, the command's director of requirements and resources said Thursday.
“This is the first time we are using the online artificial intelligence tools to help us,” Bob Stephenson told Defense One on the sidelines of Scale AI’s Gov Summit here. “We've run one exercise. We're about to move into our next phase, which is combining the AI-enabled applications that are available now—the reasoning models—with agentic, with Thunderforge, which is using modeling simulation and [courses of action] assessment.”
The first part of Pacific Sentry was held in early April; the second half starts next week. Among other things, successful completion of the scenario helps the command’s components earn their certification as combat-ready units.
Earlier this year, INDOPACOM began working with the Pentagon’s Chief Data and Artificial Intelligence Office and Defense Innovation Unit on Thunderforge, a system designed to help commanders make decisions using AI to synthesize sensor data into actionable information. Scale AI, Anduril, and Microsoft were hired to build Thunderforge, which is also to be used at European Command.
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