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Combining the physical and digital – how to achieve information superiority

Insight
28th July 2023 3 min read
Omi Ducat

Omi Ducat

Chief Marketing Officer

The physical and digital

To fully understand the world, we need to bring together the physical and the digital. Only by doing so can we accelerate and expand our ability to make sense of the world, to combat disinformation, and to control the environment. In this paper we explore the challenges, and look at how autonomy, AI and common tasking frameworks all help achieve a unified understanding.

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It is no longer reasonable for any operational system to focus on only the physical world or the digital world. Almost everything today exists simultaneously in the real (physical) and virtual (digital) world. Without integration across the physical and digital domains we create multiple points of weakness. We lack access to data. We lack the ability to co-ordinate activities to shape our response to events. We cannot identify and resolve conflicts in data, increasing vulnerability to misinformation and disinformation. It’s like missing a primary sense: if we see but don’t hear, or hear but don’t see, we miss vital information.

Mark explains more in this short video.

Conclusion

Roke’s approach to merging physical and digital domains delivers true information superiority—leveraging AI-enhanced sensor fusion, precision timing, and resilient cyber networks to enable defence teams to collect, process, and act faster than adversaries, securing decisive operational advantage in contested environments.

Omi Ducat

Omi Ducat

Chief Marketing Officer

Insight
28th July 2023 3 min read