Thales is marketing HexaForce, an AI-powered command-and-control “overlay” that plugs into legacy/national systems and uses LLMs plus agentic AI to speed targeting mission preparation and course-of-action generation. It was tested at NATO’s CWIX exercise with a distributed, mesh-reliant architecture intended to avoid centralized computing and improve resilience while scaling planning to ~1,000 target missions/day.
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AI-targetingside: natofirst seen 2026-06-01
Thales HexaForce AI-enabled multi-domain C2 tested at NATO CWIX
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- Defense News · https://www.defensenews.com/global/europe/2026/09/25/thales-in-quite-advanced-talks-with-nato-countries-on-ai-powered-command-software/Thales in ‘quite advanced’ talks with NATO countries on AI-powered command software