{"id":6748,"date":"2026-04-17T02:19:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T02:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/6748\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T02:19:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T02:19:35","slug":"france-readies-ai-powered-combat-data-management-similar-to-us-maven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/6748\/","title":{"rendered":"France readies AI-powered combat data-management similar to US \u2018Maven\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

PARIS \u2014 France\u2019s armed forces are working on a data-management system powered by artificial intelligence as a sovereign equivalent to the U.S. Defense Department\u2019s Project Maven, said Gen. Beno\u00eet Desmeulles<\/a>, the commander of the French 1st Army Corps.<\/p>\n

The armed forces are working with partners on a system to provide what Desmeulles called \u201ctrue distributed working capability\u201d centered on data and using advanced AI, \u201ca sovereign system that will essentially be the equivalent of Maven.\u201d<\/p>\n

The system could be available within a few months, and available for exercises in September 2027, the general said, declining to provide specifics.<\/p>\n

Project Maven is a Pentagon program that uses AI to process drone and surveillance data to automatically detect and track objects, using technology provided by contractors including Palantir Technologies. Maven has faced controversy amid questions about AI-assisted targeting in Iran, with concerns about speed, accountability, and harm to civilians<\/a> related to automated kill chains.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve really positioned data as the center of everything we do,\u201d Desmeulles said in a briefing<\/a> with three reporters on Saturday at the Montmorillon military camp in western France, describing data as the ammunition of the command post.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe centrality of data is something that\u2019s well understood by the corps, the Army, and the French forces,\u201d he said. \u201cSo, we\u2019re really focused on that.\u201d<\/p>\n

The armed forces are on track to develop \u201ca true distributed working capability, based on highly advanced artificial intelligence and centered on data,\u201d Desmeulles said. \u201cWe\u2019re following that logic, to remain sovereign, and that\u2019s an area where we are strong.\u201d<\/p>\n

Desmeulles said his corps is already seeing \u201cvery, very good\u201d results from a data-centric approach, even if there is \u201cstill a little way to go before it\u2019s practically perfect in my eyes.\u201d<\/p>\n

France has several AI companies that are active in defense, including Comand AI, ChapsVision and Safran\u2019s AI business, and is also home to a major developer of large-language models with Mistral AI. France in 2024 created an agency under the Armed Forces Ministry that works on AI for defense.<\/p>\n

Rudy Ruitenberg is a Europe correspondent for Defense News. He started his career at Bloomberg News and has experience reporting on technology, commodity markets and politics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PARIS \u2014 France\u2019s armed forces are working on a data-management system powered by artificial intelligence as a sovereign…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6749,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[524,4391,2208,5660,2209,2206,5,5659,5658,5461,5460],"class_list":["post-6748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-france","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-circulated-c4isrnet","tag-circulated-defense-news","tag-data-management","tag-defense-news","tag-dn-dnr","tag-france","tag-land-forces","tag-project-maven","tag-simulation","tag-training"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}