HENSOLDT and 21strategies collaborate to develop AI for defence systems.
Sensor solutions provider HENSOLDT and AI company 21strategies have entered into a strategic collaboration to jointly drive the development of next-generation artificial intelligence (AI) for defence systems. HENSOLDT is participating in 21strategies’ financing round to provide a strong foundation for the cooperation. Artificial intelligence is essential for the performance of many HENSOLDT products, and the partnership will take HENSOLDT’s AI competencies to a new level.
The two companies are already working together on the GhostPlay project for the German Armed Forces Digitisation and Technology Research Centre (DTEC.Bw). GhostPlay creates a high-performance, synthetic simulation environment to develop decision-making procedures that take into account different parameters. HENSOLDT’s data plays a crucial role in customers’ situational awareness and defence capabilities, and 21strategies’ technology complements HENSOLDT’s AI competencies.
The collaboration will enable HENSOLDT to optimally enable highly complex defence systems by mastering artificial intelligence in its entirety. The combination of AI approaches of the so-called Third Wave with HENSOLDT’s existing Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) competencies will further increase the performance of AI. 21strategies is also able to offer AI systems that meet clients’ requirements for legal and ethical compliance of AI.
The partnership between HENSOLDT and 21strategies is mutually beneficial. HENSOLDT will benefit from 21strategies’ expertise with value-based engineering, while 21strategies will be able to make its AI tech stack available for defence. The collaboration will enable the two companies to develop next-generation AI for defence systems and take HENSOLDT’s AI competencies to a new level.
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