"Ukrainian Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov said in a LinkedIn post this week that Palantir was helping the MoD and the country's defense tech partnership platform Brave1 build what it's calling a "Dataroom" that will help equip interceptor drones with AI capabilities. Interceptor drones, for those unaware, are drones designed to take down other drones, like the Shahed-type drones commonly used by Russian armed forces."
""Interceptor drones have already proven their effectiveness and cost-efficiency in real combat conditions," Fedorov explained. "But defending against thousands of drones requires autonomy - the ability for an interceptor drone to detect, identify, track, and neutralize targets independently." The Dataroom will allow Ukrainian defense companies that apply to join the program to train and validate their AI models for tasks like target detection, classification, and interception, on real-world battlefield data gathered since Russia's invasion of Ukraine."
Palantir has been given expanded access to Ukrainian warfighting data to support development of autonomous interceptor drones. A Dataroom built with the Ministry of Defense and Brave1 aggregates visual and thermal databases of aerial targets, including Shahed drones. The Dataroom enables qualified Ukrainian defense companies to train and validate AI models for target detection, classification, tracking, and interception using real battlefield data collected since the invasion. Autonomy is prioritized to handle large volumes of nightly aerial threats. The data collections and project scope will expand over time to cover broader autonomy and AI-related areas.
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