115. 15 Layers Deep: Supporting Soldiers with Geospatial Intelligence

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This episode features Jason Feser discussing the impact of geospatial intelligence on modern battlefield transparency and situational awareness.

[Editor’s Note: As observed in TRADOC Pamphlet 525-92, The Operational Environment 2024-2034: Large-Scale Combat Operations: “LSCO will be marked by the democratization and proliferation of advanced technologies and hyperconnected global communications, creating an increasingly transparent battlefield that makes it difficult to hide from the enemy.” Today’s The Convergence podcast features Jason Feser from the U.S. Army Geospatial Center exploring just how transparent the contemporary battlefield has become. With the convergence of sensing technologies, democratized space, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) / Machine Learning (ML), this capability is empowering our Soldiers with a granular situational awareness of the Operational Environment, down to an eight-digit (plus!) grid reference. Modern LSCO is now a competition between the hiders and the finders — if a target can be seen, it can be killed! Our adversaries have similar sensing capabilities — but in the contemporary Operational Environment, warfare favors those who can innovate tactically. The tactical advantage offered by this granular level of battlefield transparency is lost if it can’t be shared with and used by…

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Host: The Army Mad Scientist Initiative

Guest: Jason Feser

Topics covered

• geospatial intelligence
• battlefield transparency
• large-scale combat operations
• artificial intelligence
• machine learning
• tactical advantage

Keywords

• geospatial intelligence
• battlefield
• artificial intelligence
• machine learning
• large-scale combat operations
• situational awareness
• tactical advantage

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Organizations: U.S. Army Geospatial Center, TRADOC, Army Mad Scientist Initiative

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