Thales Debuts AI-Driven Pathmaster Solution for Enhanced Maritime Mine Detection and Safety

Thales Debuts AI-Driven Pathmaster Solution for Enhanced Maritime Mine Detection and Safety

(IN BRIEF) Thales unveiled its AI-powered Pathmaster solution at the Euronaval exhibition, showcasing a system designed to improve maritime mine detection and neutralization through advanced sonar data analysis. With the Mi-Map application, Pathmaster processes sonar data up to four times faster than traditional methods, enhancing accuracy and efficiency. Certified for autonomy and tested through the Franco-British MMCM program, Pathmaster supports maritime safety by enabling faster and more precise mine classification, addressing growing threats to global shipping routes.

(PRESS RELEASE) LA DÉFENSE, 4-Nov-2024 — /EuropaWire/ — At the Euronaval exhibition in Paris Nord Villepinte (4-7 November), Thales is presenting advancements in mine countermeasures with its AI-powered Pathmaster solution, designed to enhance the detection, classification, and neutralization of maritime mines. Integrated with Thales’s Mi-Map sonar analysis application, Pathmaster uses AI to accelerate data processing up to four times faster than traditional methods, increasing accuracy and enabling faster identification of underwater mines.

Pathmaster leverages cutting-edge AI developed by Thales’s research hub, cortAIx, and draws on comprehensive field trials under the Franco-British MMCM program. This solution, certified for high autonomy by the UK’s Naval Authority Group, supports operators by analyzing extensive sonar data in real-time and post-mission, enhancing maritime safety through the precise detection of mines.

With maritime mines posing a persistent threat to global trade routes, Pathmaster is positioned to counter these risks effectively. “With the rise in sophistication of maritime mines, AI-enabled countermeasures provide critical support by processing data efficiently and safeguarding human operators,” said Gwendoline Blandin-Roger, Thales’s Vice President of Underwater Systems.

Thales, a leader in trusted, cybersecure AI, employs over 600 AI specialists and leverages its expertise across defense, aviation, space, and critical infrastructure. The company’s AI technology supports critical decision-making, sensor accuracy, and real-time analysis in challenging operational environments, addressing stringent security and sovereignty needs.

AI at Thales

Thales is a major player in trusted, cybersafe, transparent, explainable and ethical AI for armed forces, aircraft manufacturers and critical infrastructure providers. The Group employs over 600 engineers specialising in AI and around 100 doctoral candidates are conducting their AI research with Thales. Organised within Thales’s AI accelerator for research (AI Lab), systems, including decision support systems, (AI Factory) and sensors, including sonar, radar, radios and optronics, (AI Sensors), these experts are helping to incorporate AI into over 100 of Thales’s products and services. Thales’s AI capabilities draw on the most advanced sensor and system technologies to address the full spectrum of user requirements in the defence, aviation, space, cybersecurity and digital identity industries. Trusted AI is designed to meet the specific security and sovereignty needs of Thales’s customers. It brings greater efficiency to data analysis and decision support and speeds up the detection, identification and classification of objects of interest and target scenes, while taking account of specific constraints such as cybersecurity, embeddability and frugality in critical environments.

In 2023, the Group was Europe’s top patent applicant in the field of AI for mission-critical systems. Also in 2023, the Group’s Friendly Hacker Unit demonstrated its credentials at the CAID challenge (Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Defence) organised by the French defence procurement agency (DGA), which involved finding AI training data even when it had been deleted from the system to preserve confidentiality.

About Thales

Thales (Euronext Paris: HO) is a global technology leader serving the Defence & Security, Aerospace & Space and Cybersecurity & Digital Identity markets.

The Group develops products and solutions that help make the world safer, greener and more inclusive.

Thales invests close to €4 billion a year in Research & Development, particularly in key areas such as AI, cybersecurity, quantum technologies, cloud technologies and 6G.

Thales has 81,000 employees in 68 countries. In 2023, the Group generated sales of €18.4 billion.

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