• Thales flagged a faster tempo in conventional warfare, citing Ukraine and Iran, raising the premium on speed in military command-and-control centers.
• AI is positioned as a strategic asset to convert large, heterogeneous sensor data into actionable intelligence, aiming to shorten decision cycles.
• Testing began this year for a new data-centric generation of C2 systems designed to embed AI across data exploitation and decision support.
• Thales highlighted AI-specific vulnerabilities in C2, including deception, data poisoning, deepfakes, and cyberattacks, requiring greater model robustness.
• BattleBox, built by an internal “friendly hackers” team, groups offensive and defensive tools such as deepfake detection and AI backdoor identification.

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