Eurosatory2024

EUROSATORY2024: Flying High with AI and Helicopters

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Artificial intelligence is this year’s hot topic at EUROSATORY in Paris. From 17 to 21 June, defence and security professionals around the world gather at Paris Nord Villepinte for the exhibition EUROSATORY, featuring 2,000 international exhibitors from more than 60 countries.

Held every two years in Paris, the 1967-founded EUROSATORY acts as a global business opportunity for manufacturers and start-ups in both the public and private defence and security markets. It is a meeting forum for experts, governments and their administrations, international institutions, and NGOs.

Also, there is an exhibition zone dedicated to helicopters. As part of Eurosatory 2024, you can watch exclusive demonstrations by the world-renowned French elite units: The GIGN (National Gendarmerie Intervention Group, a military force with law enforcement duties among the civilian population), the BRI (Police Search and Intervention Unit, an investigation and intervention unit), the RAID (search, assistance, intervention, dissuasion – elite police unit) and the French Army.

In 2024, Eurosatory will host over a hundred talks and almost 2,000 international exhibitors from more than 60 countries (start-ups, SMEs, ETIs, and major world-leading groups), as well as 40 international pavilions. The event will send live TV streaming from the exhibition center with the latest news from the defence and security sector plus reports, descriptions, and interviews.

AI at the Heart of the Event

Artificial intelligence is at the heart of the show’s hot topics. It is proving to be a major innovation catalyst in the defence and security domains. These technologies have become unavoidable as a security and sovereignty focal point for armed forces and governments.

The Eurocopter Tigre is a four-blade, twin-engine attack helicopter, manufactured by Airbus Helicopters.
(Image: Peng Chen, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons)

A global race to AI has begun in which the US, China, and the European Union are all investing ever more to maintain or gain a lead over the others. Greater sovereignty in this area not only involves European-developed AI, but also the simultaneous and ongoing relaunch of a European semiconductor sector.

Industrial applications of AI applied to defence and security activities can be grouped into three main categories:

  • 1. Image processing, with significantly improved detection and classification, used in video surveillance and target tracking, applicable to all military operations, especially intelligence operations.
  • 2. Time series processing (i.e. the evolution of a variable over time, such as temperature, vibration, or fuel consumption), to anticipate potential vehicle or aircraft failures.
  • 3. Natural language processing, used in intelligence, as it enables a great deal of work to be done in summarising documents and information.

AI is already operational in targeted military applications. It is also at the heart of defence maintenance and logistics. It is also working for human health.

AI has a large number of applications in defence and security systems, such as autonomous navigation, autonomous systems and robotics, planning, data analysis, and predictive intelligence to anticipate potential threats, decision support, logistics, predictive maintenance, cybersecurity and electronic warfare, facial recognition, and biometrics, simulation and training, and the health of men and women in the field (e.g. soldiers and police officers).

At the helicopter exhibition zone, there are helicopters from the French Army’s light aircraft fleet: EC 665 TIGRE (Airbus Helicopters), NH 90 CAÏMAN (NH Industries), and from the US Army’s Aviation unit: AH 64 APACHE (Boeing), UH 60 BLACKHAWK (Sikorsky) and CH 47 CHINOOK (Boeing).
There are also helicopters currently under development: H 160 M GUEPARD (Airbus Helicopters) and AW 249 FENICE (Leonardo).
In addition to this outdoor zone, an H 175 M helicopter will be on display on the Airbus stand (ExtPe6a-D243), accompanied by a VSR 700 unmanned reconnaissance helicopter.

Nordic Defence Review will be monitoring EUROSATORY2024 closely.

Program Tips for Eurosatory2024

  • Monday, June 17 from 02.00 PM to 03.00 PM
    CYBERSECURITY: INFORMATION WARFARE AND OPERATIONAL IMPACT
  • Monday, June 17 from 03.00 PM to 03.30 PM, CHARLIE
    DEFENSE COOPERATION: BUILDING INDUSTRIAL CAPACITY ACROSS NATO AND THE EU: OVERVIEW BY THE NATO SUPPORT AND PROCUREMENT AGENCY
  • Tuesday, June 18 from 10.00 AM to 11.00 AM, BRAVO
    INNOVATION: DEFENCE UNICORNS AND RISING STARS
  • Tuesday, June 18 from 12.00 PM to 01.00 PM, CHARLIEINNOVATION: DISRUPTIVE INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES FROM SMALL & MEDIUM COMPANIES
  • Wednesday, June 19 from 10.00 AM to 11.00 AM
    ECONOMY, POLITICS, AND FINANCING: IS THE EUROPEAN AMMUNITION INDUSTRY FIT FOR FUTURE?
  • Wednesday, June 19 from 03.00 PM to 04.00 PM, CHARLIE
    DEFENSE COOPERATION: MILITARY ALLIES AND INDUSTRIAL COMPETITORS IN A WORLD OF THREE FRONTS: HOW DO THEY FIT TOGETHER?
  • Wednesday, June 19 from 03.30 PM to 04.00 PM, EXHIBITOR’S CORNER
    ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) AND MACHINE LEARNING (ML):
    AI AND THE OPEN-SOURCE DATA ADVANTAGE: A NECESSITY IN MODERN COMBAT
  • Thursday, June 20 from 10.30 AM to 11.00 AM, EXHIBITOR’S CORNER
    SPACE CAPABILITIES: LASER-FOCUSED DEFENCE: MASTERING DRONE WARFARE WITH HIGH ENERGY LASERS AND DAZZLING TECHNOLOGY
  • Thursday, June 20 from 03.30 PM to 04.00 PM, EXHIBITOR’S CORNER
    INNOVATION:  TALKY-DIVY, BY 52HZ AND ACTRIS SYSTEMS, A REVOLUTIONARY UNDERWATER COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS
  • Friday, June 21 from 10.00 AM to 11.00 AM
    INNOVATION: ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING, A PARADIGM SHIFT FOR THE DEFENSE INDUSTRY?
  • Friday, June 21 from 12.00 PM to 01.00 PM
    ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) AND MACHINE LEARNING (ML): PROTECTING INFRASTRUCTURES WITH 3D SIMULATION, DIGITAL TWINS, AND AI
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