Defence advances 'novel' analytics capability

More details have emerged about Defence's "resilient decision highway" analytics project, which is intended to improve “operational decision-making" within the Australian Defence Force.

Defence has appointed Arc Professional Services to help develop the "resilient decision highway” capability.

According to Arc, the resilient decision highway project was initiated in 2019 and represents “the pinnacle of automated intelligence capabilities, providing timely situational awareness and operational insights to intelligence analysts and warfighters”.

For its part, Arc will develop and maintain the underlying platform infrastructure, “create novel analytic capabilities and design user interfaces that improve human-machine collaboration”.

The project will be largely carried out at Defence Science and Technology Group’s Edinburgh base in Adelaide due in part to the “classification of the work being up to and including top secret.”

In a statement, Jeremy Stredwick, managing director of Arc Professional Services, said “winning this contract is a testament to our team's dedication, expertise, and unwavering commitment to supporting the Australian Defence Force and its allies”.

Defence has been contacted for comment.

Arc's contributions, in particular, will focus on building and sustaining secure, cloud-native platforms and DevSecOps pipelines to “accelerate the transition of novel capabilities to operational environments”.

It will also include work on “synthetic reasoning agents and dynamic orchestration systems to support integrated, mission-agnostic analytics”.

In addition, Arc will work on improving user experience, including AI collaboration, and automating a number of workflows with a focus on sensor fusion and tracking.