The new systems in Unit 8200 show the efficiency of intelligence gathering and distribution in the field • Lt. Col. D.: "The two technologies complement each other"
"The person who receives the information is the consumer sitting in the front position and not the soldier in the Kirya."
8200 soldiers analyze information by new means
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Within minutes, the circle around drug smugglers closed last week.
The observers identified a suspicious movement and aimed fighters directly at the area, on the Israel-Egypt border.
The loot was particularly large - a number of bags containing drugs with an estimated value of NIS 2 million.
This time it was a smuggling, next time it will be a squad of terrorists on the way to a multi-casualty attack in Israeli territory.
Now is permitted to disclose, under restrictions that the army used an intelligence first of its kind and sophisticated, including artificial intelligence that helps dramatically powers.
Both technologies are defined highest classified, designed to help maneuver deep in enemy territory and allow to prevent attacks and intrusions borders. Both were developed by members The Center for Artificial Intelligence and Data Science in Unit 8200 and this week won the award of the head of the Armed Forces for Creative Thinking, because they "significantly jump the IDF's operational capabilities."
In recent years, the army has been facing increasing threats within the country's borders.
North foiled attempts to attack the IDF soldiers and breakthrough technologies, the South trying to terrorists and suspects regularly cross the perimeter fence of the Gaza Strip and smugglers on the Egyptian border operate in sophisticated ways to deliver the drugs into Israel.
Versus terrorists are many factors that collect information in creative ways, But sometimes the amount of information is due to the Achilles heel due to the need to sort it and separate the chaff and hay. The intelligence department deals with huge amounts of information coming from the air, sea and land, from a wide variety of sources, while constantly dealing with several arenas that are formed in parallel. In the best way, the special center was established in 8200, which aims to centralize all IDF information about the enemy in one platform.
And this is where "The Alchemist" comes into play, an extraordinary technology that seems to have come straight out of a Hollywood action movie.
"We understand that we need to respond quickly"
"The Alchemist system receives the alert from one of the borders and catalogs its importance, while tools must be activated to obtain all the information necessary to neutralize it," explains Lt. Col. D., one of the system's developers. "All the information that the ISF has about the threat in real time, including the ability to connect to all the aircraft that are in the air and cameras in the area to understand at a given moment what is happening.
In addition, the system automatically detects the location of Israeli forces in the area using sophisticated sensors.
"In the past, if an intelligence officer had a question he had to turn to 8200 and from there to the intelligence center. Now, using the tool we created, if an intelligence officer decides he wants to update the fighters he presses a button and the alert reaches every fighter using systems in his possession. "D (a digital control system installed on many military tools and providing information to fighters)." The
system is two-way, and field intelligence officers are able to raise questions to the system, to 8200 people, and get answers in minutes, which can make the difference between life and death. To illustrate, if Magalan fighters had not identified in real time last August the terrorists who placed a charge on the Golan Heights border, they or other fighters could have been in great danger.
The combination of technology that analyzes the threats and identifies the whole picture in the field at a speed that far exceeds what a single person is capable of, is the significant change.
Lt. Col. D.: “We realized we needed to respond quickly.
If there is an alert, sometimes a few minutes can be very critical.
In the past there was a human bottleneck that had to be passed, and only at the end of the information would it reach the warrior.
Here we have built a situation where as soon as the materials reach the system, the one who receives the product is the consumer who sits in the front position and not a soldier in the campus.
The machine works in real time with processing capabilities that a person is unable to contain and can be transferred with one click directly to the fighter.
The fighter can identify in the hunting system who is in the area and send him the information, including photos and videos. "
The "Google" of the 8200 to
"Alchemist", developed a few years ago and recently upgraded, has recently been joined by a very sophisticated new system called "Shadow" (shadow), which is actually "the Google of the 8200". This is a system that can provide in a short time all the details about one purpose or another, whether it is text, images, videos and any other information, just as you get details about a civil event in the known search engine.
"In the past, the soldiers who analyzed the information received the information according to different disciplines, according to types of materials. For example, if there was voice information and information in the form of text, there were two separate people in charge, so you would not necessarily get the information together. One, "Lt. Col. D. explains the essence of the revolution. Just like Google, the system gathers the information together and makes it accessible to the intelligence officer.
In the case of" Shadow ", not only does the system gather the information in one place, but it also learns by itself, through intelligence Artificial. Lt. Col. R., one of the system's developers: "The engine learns while working and trains the algorithm so that it optimizes itself and learns about the user. The system significantly changed our ability to access the information - instead of skipping between different systems and running different people, Who specialize in different fields, everything comes in one system. "
Unlike other systems, both these systems demand came from the field, the soldiers in 8200, knew the search systems Civics and proposed on the one hand give access to the vast information that comes into MI and contrast transfer it directly to the fighters on the ground, without filters or delays.
"The center is an example And a model for technological leadership. 90 percent of the data in the IDF is here, "says the head of the IDF's Intelligence Division, Maj. Gen. Tamir Heiman." This is an innovative engine used to expose the enemy.
" Lt. Col. R. The first is intended for rapid action against threats on the ground, while the second is intended for deepening. First you thwart the security incident, neutralize the threat, then turn to attack. Learn everything you can learn about the enemy, without missing a thing, then strike hard. "Most of the warnings will be dismantled in 'Alchemist', because he is able to see all the peripheral systems and all the information in the point event," concludes Lt. Col. D. "Then you delve into 'Shado', learning everything there is to know about the target."