The Pentagon spends more than $100 billion each year on direct labor and maintenance parts. That’s billion with a Capital B. And that doesn’t include associated logistics costs; those add millions of dollars to the total.
The advent of better industrial AI tools begs a question: Can AI applications maintain mission readiness while reducing government spending? In an era of government efficiency, can employees use AI to increase the mission readiness of defense forces and the assets they depend upon?
With the right technology, the military can boost mission readiness while also ensuring the resilience of logistics and supply chains in contested environments. With AI, how much of that $100 billion figure could be reduced?
“The Department of Defense is the most lethal fighting force on the planet, but it costs a lot to maintain that position. And we all know that a lack of readiness among aviation, maritime and ground platforms could be catastrophic,” said Avathon Government President and General Manager Art Sellers. “AI increases the effectiveness and efficiency of our warfighters, saving time and money that are desperately needed elsewhere to deter and defeat our adversaries. Our intimate knowledge of warfighters’ needs and workflows allow us to use an entire platform of AI applications to enhance performance at all levels while reducing spending. In this era, it’s all about government efficiency, and our AI applications are leading the way.”
Military readiness requires an AI suite of defense optimization applications
Avathon’s defense applications include several mission-critical capabilities, all integrated to deliver the levels of mission readiness that modern warfare demands.
“Whether it’s parts, supplies or logistics, the risks involved with delivering across all domains and shipping methods are tremendous,” Sellers said. “By using our AI platform, militaries can operate under a more limited budget and still procure and sustain the mission.”
Here’s how Avathon’s technology assists the military:
Digital Maintenance: Avathon’s modular digital maintenance AI application supports the efficient operation of complex weapons systems and extends the visibility of fleet health, supply and logistics capabilities. The application alerts maintainers to potential failures before they become critical, enabling them to proactively maintain the system rather than performing repairs only after a failure has occurred. This enables mission readiness to dramatically increase, along with safety and operating efficiency. In the military, it is absolutely essential that aircraft, ships and other assets be mission-ready at all times to ensure the safety of soldiers and the successful outcome of their actions. A warfighter needs predictability about asset performance to minimize risk, avoid dangerous and expensive failures, and prevent unplanned downtime. By analyzing historical system performance data, failures can be predicted in advance and prescriptive maintenance recommendations provided that minimize the impact of asset failures on mission readiness.
Multi-Domain Awareness: Using the abilities of AI to analyze and leverage disparate data forms in contested environments enables warfighters to achieve dominance, enhance domain awareness and shorten OODA loops. Avathon integrates with and enhances existing systems and user interfaces while operating across numerous structured and unstructured data types. These include textual data sources in multiple languages, multi-physics sensor networks and multidomain manned and unmanned platforms.
Visual AI: By autonomously analyzing camera feeds to proactively assess emerging safety and security threats and alert personnel, visual AI can automatically detect and alert on security breaches, safety hazards and other activities that would otherwise compromise a team’s effectiveness and mission readiness.
Supply Chain and Logistics: Avathon’s industry-tested, AI-powered supply chain and logistics application for contested environments enhances the effectiveness of soldiers and ensures the reliability of the assets they depend upon. By integrating with weather data, supplier status and other critical information, warfighter and asset effectiveness are ensured. AI provides visibility across the logistics enterprise, from the strategic support area to front-line units. It provides data-driven options to avoid disruptions in strategic mobility, whether at the depot, intermediate staging bases or other locations. This enables the successful reception, staging, onward movement and integration of combat forces and their required sustainment assets.
Rely on industrial AI to plan for future conflicts today
AI is a must-have capability that needs to be as flexible as possible so that personnel in the field benefit from new software and tools that leverage battlefield intelligence quickly and accurately.
Avathon harnesses industry-proven AI technology to bolster military readiness, improve decision advantage and optimize defense operations. By optimizing capital equipment uptime, predicting equipment/engine failures and strengthening supplier quality control through advanced technologies like deep learning, natural language processing (NLP), normal behavior modeling (NBM), generative AI, and computer vision, Avathon provides practical, readiness-optimized applications to partner with the armed forces in enhancing domain awareness, improving decision making and enabling modernization of the defense industrial base.
Learn more about how Avathon Government helps reduce cycle times and enhance mission readiness.
