Thales is in advanced talks with NATO countries about its AI-powered C2 system HexaForce. HexaForce was tested during NATO’s CWIX exercise in Poland in June. It is designed as a multi-domain overlay for legacy and national systems. Users can choose their own AI models to avoid vendor lock-in. The system supports planning from army corps to battalion level. It aims to enable 1,000 target missions per day. HexaForce uses a distributed architecture with mesh capability. It proposes courses of action but leaves final decisions to operators. The system can integrate commercial data like ship-tracking or cyber threats. Thales positions HexaForce as a NATO solution, not France-specific. It is already available to armed forces. The first version took nine months to develop.
What changed
Legacy C2 systems lacked AI-powered mission planning and distributed architecture.
What it unlocks
Planning 1,000 target missions daily with AI-assisted courses of action.
- 1,000 target missions per day
- nine months from design to availability
What you need to act on it
- NATO country adoption
- Integration with existing legacy systems
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