Transcom pursues AI to enhance patient movement ops and mass casualty response

MIT Lincoln Laboratory researchers are developing and demonstrating bespoke artificial intelligence and machine learning assets to enhance U.S. Transportation Command’s capacity to perform in contemporary operations, and ultimately prepare for future conflicts.
"Right now, [the lab is] working with Transcom’s Surgeon General on how to build analytic tools with patient data to handle a mass casualty event," John DeLapp, the futures division chief at the command’s analytics center, or TCAC, told DefenseScoop.
Other projects include but are not limited to advanced AI for large-scale in-flight messaging analyses, and algorithms to inform global air refueling missions. They're all unfolding via a well-established partnership that the command has dubbed the MIT Lincoln Lab Living Plan.
Officials briefed DefenseScoop on this collaborative initiative during an exclusive tour of the command’s headquarters at Scott Air Force Base, Illinois, this week. They also shared new details about an upcoming exercise that aims to optimize data transmission across a broad spectrum of operations.