Artificial Intelligence (AI) is already strengthening critical systems across the most challenging and highly contested environments. 

By enabling dynamic data extraction and faster analysis, AI improves situational awareness, speeds up decision making and reduces mental workload for operators, delivering cognitive superiority to users.

Our AI capabilities

At the core of Thales's AI innovation is CortAIx, our global AI accelerator. The CortAIx centre in the UK serves as a focal point for AI innovation, bringing together cutting-edge technology, skilled talent, and research. Thales leverages its deep expertise in defence and security to create AI solutions specifically designed to meet the UK’s operational needs - from the edge to the cloud.

CortAIx in the UK will focus on:

 

 AI Solutions

that are deployed ethically, securely, and transparently.

Improved performance 

of the most advanced systems.

Enhanced decision-making

 for human operators, even under the most challenging and constrained circumstances.

 

Taking defence to the next level

AI is already widely embedded across our product and service portfolio, but we want to take it further. Our global AI accelerator is set to support the integration of AI throughout the product development lifecycle and across all our sectors, including defence and security.

Deployable AI in action

Our AI technologies are actively enhancing operational capabilities:

Mission support

The Multi-Domain Mission Support System (MD MSS) utilises AI to process complex datasets rapidly, providing critical situational awareness and aiding mission planning and execution.

Autonomous mine countermeasures

AI-driven analysis of sonar images enables real-time localisation of mine-like objects, increasing coverage rates and accuracy in maritime operations.

Preparing for the future

Hybrid threats. Multi-domain operations. Cognitive overload. Advanced technology brings new challenges, so we’re developing AI building blocks with multiple applications to get ahead. From enhanced decision support across mission planning, execution and analysis, to object detection, tracking and labelling, we’re empowering users to out-think and out-manoeuvre the adversary, now and in the future.

Superior decisioning with the human-machine team

We believe technology should always be designed around the human experience. Using our Human Factors expertise, we consider physical and mental capabilities – particularly in high-stress situations – then develop AI-powered systems that augment, accelerate and enhance decision-making from the edge to the cloud.

 

Ethical AI for the Future

Thales is committed to developing AI responsibly. Our approach prioritises transparency and human-centric design, ensuring that AI systems enhance human decision-making without replacing it. Through cortAIx, we continue to innovate, creating modular AI building blocks that can be integrated across various platforms to meet evolving operational needs.

What’s next for AI?

There’s great potential for modular AI building blocks that can be incorporated easily into multiple environments. Like D3CI, which reveals hidden insights from huge quantities of data according to user-defined requirements, or AI DAMS which uses geo-located data to create a full situational awareness picture for analysts and operators. We’re not only developing these building blocks, we’re looking at how algorithms intersect and can be used together for even greater operational benefit

Our heritage of innovating

For over a century, we’ve been driving the creation of some of the UK’s most advanced and innovative technologies. And for the last decade, this has meant carefully integrating AI into existing systems and exploring the possibilities for AI as we face the challenges of the future.