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2021-1-22 智邦网
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据C4isr网1月19日报道
在“未来空战系统”等项目中，自动化传感器处理是一个关键能力。
德国亨索尔特公司宣布，收购了位于奥地利维也纳的Sail Labs公司，旨在增强该领域业务能力。
亨索尔特公司打算利用Sail Labs公司的引擎创建新的产品组合，该引擎采用人工智能技术分析开源智能数据。
Sail Labs公司成立于1999年，负责对公开数据进行处理，提高私营部门及政府决策机构态势感知能力。
亨索尔特公司希望借助Sail Labs公司的算法，研发出由传感器构成的自学习网络，在现实世界及网络空间协助人类操作员完成从监视到目标定位的一切工作，以巩固在欧洲国防电子领域的领先地位。
亨索尔特公司是从空中客车公司分离出来的一家公司，是法德西班牙联合开展的“未来空中作战系统”项目第二级承包商之一。公司领导着一个专门研究任务系统与传感器集成的德国工业联盟。
德国迪尔防务公司、ESG公司以及罗德与施瓦茨公司都是该工业联盟成员。
Hensoldt buys Austrian AI specialist Sail Labs to boost its sensor-fusion portfolio
Germany’s Hensoldt bought Vienna, Austria-based Sail Labs to jump-start its activities in the field of automated sensor processing, a key capability for projects like the Future Combat Air System, the company announced.
Hensoldt plans to build a new product portfolio around the Sail Labs engine, which analyzes open-source intelligence data using artificial intelligence. Founded in 1999, the company specializes in processing large amounts of publicly available data to create situational awareness for decision-makers in the private sector and in government.
With the Sail Labs algorithm under the hood, Hensoldt hopes to inch closer to what many defense companies working on next-generation weaponry dream of: a self-learning network of sensors assisting human operators in everything from surveillance to targeting, both in real-world operations and in cyberspace.
“National security questions revolve increasingly around the intelligent capture and analysis of data,” Hensoldt CEO Thomas Müller said in a statement. “The acquisition of Sail Labs continues our strategy of investing in key technologies that will cement our position as leading European champion in the field of defense electronics.”
The company did not provide any information on the value of the purchase.
The German company, spun out of Airbus, is part of the second tier of contractors developing technology for the French-German-Spanish FCAS program. Hensoldt leads a German industry consortium specializing on mission systems and sensor-weapon integration for the effort. Diehl Defence, ESG and Rohde and Schwarz are also part of that group.
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