Camgian to bring air/missile defense operations to FISTA

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Camgian, the original tenant at Lawton’s FISTA, announced $10 million in new contract awards to develop kill-chain automation capabilities that support air and missile defense operations.

Specifically, the program will leverage artificial intelligence technologies to enable advanced capabilities for detecting and defeating a range of threats in highly contested air domains. This includes the development of machine-learning algorithms and software systems deployed within a distributed computing architecture that rapidly fuse and process large volumes of sensor data for deriving real-time threat assessments, targeting information, and course of action recommendations.

The programs will be supported by Camgian’s new location at the Fires Innovation Science Technology Accelerator in Lawton. Camgian’s headquarters is in Starkville, Mississippi.

“As the original tenant at the FISTA, we are excited to support work of this importance and technological significance in the Lawton-Fort Sill community”, said David James, director of Oklahoma operations and product manager at Camgian. “The technologies being developed by our team at Camgian on these programs have the potential to be highly impactful in today’s emerging air threat environment and future conflicts.”

“Camgian is engaged in developing a new generation of AI-powered military technologies that aim to provide our warfighters with the capability to think and act faster than our adversaries,” Camgian founder and CEO Gary D. Butler testified in an appearance before the U.S. Senate’s Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee.

“Today’s air domain threats are unlike any we have seen in history,” Dr. Butler said.

“Our objective is to leverage the power of advanced AI technologies to enable a next generation of intelligent defensive systems that support large-scale combat operations and can achieve new levels of speed, automation, and effectiveness in today’s high-intensity air threat environment.”