What are the short- and medium-term targets of the Centre of Excellence for Artificial Intelligence under UDAAN? What technologies is the IAF prioritising?

Keeping the future air warfare strategies in consideration, the Indian Air Force has taken proactive steps to embed AI-based technologies in all its war fighting processes. Absorption of AI is being enabled through AI Centre of Excellence with high end AI servers and big data storage facilities under the aegis of UDAAN (Unit for Digitisation, Automations, Artificial Intelligence and Application Networking).

The IAF is in the process of embedding these technologies in short and medium term in the areas of Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance, Command Control and Reporting, Campaign Planning, Forecasting Operational Stamina, Aircraft Maintenance and e-Governance. Technologies of Natural Language Processing, Deep Learning, and Machine Learning