The government has adopted a resolution launching a new format of cooperation between the state, Ukrainian companies, and international partners.

This was announced on March 12 by Ukraine’s Minister of Defense Mykhailo Fedorov.

According to him, in modern warfare Ukraine must defeat Russia in every technological cycle.

Artificial intelligence is one of the key areas of this competition.

The minister noted that the future of warfare belongs to autonomous systems.

“Our task is to increase the level of autonomy of drones and other combat systems so that they can detect targets faster, analyze the situation, and help make decisions on the battlefield. The key to this is high-quality data for training neural networks”, — the statement said.

For this purpose, a special AI platform has been created at the Defense Ministry’s Center for Innovation and Development of Defense Technologies, which allows:

  • safely training models without direct access to sensitive databases;

  • working with large arrays of labeled photo and video materials;

  • using data that is constantly updated.

The minister emphasized that Ukraine today possesses a unique body of battlefield data that exists nowhere else in the world.

This includes millions of annotated frames collected during tens of thousands of combat flights.

These data are already being used to train neural networks that automatically detect ground and aerial targets within the Delta system.

He also noted that international partners and Ukrainian companies have a strong demand for such data for the development and modernization of defense technologies.

“For us, this is the next step in developing win-win cooperation. Partners gain the opportunity to train their AI models on real data from modern warfare, and Ukraine gains faster development of autonomous systems and new technological solutions for the front.

We are ready to work with partners on joint analytics, model training, and the creation of new technological solutions”, — the minister said.