Check out CEO Bill Bain's article for the Forbes Technology Council. In this piece, Bill explores how digital twins with AI can enhance mission awareness by driving faster insights across both battlefield and supply chain operations.

Military leaders today face increasingly complex challenges, including cyber threats and drone warfare. The OODA loop (observe, orient, decide, act) remains an essential framework for decision-making, but accelerating it is critical when scenarios involve thousands of assets moving simultaneously. Digital twins combined with AI and machine learning are emerging as powerful tools to speed this process and enhance situational awareness.

Digital twins integrate live sensor data with historical patterns to provide commanders with continuous analysis of both friendly and enemy forces. Using machine learning to analyze multiple satellite images, they can track enemy assets and give commanders a clear view of evolving battlefield dynamics. Beyond the battlefield, digital twins improve logistics and maintenance by modeling complex systems like aircraft and by tracking supply chains.

Digital twins integrated with AI represent a shift in how defense organizations manage and process data. By continuously analyzing live information and removing delays caused by offline silos, these tools can deliver the fast, precise insights required when every decision can have critical consequences.