Thales vice president Patrick Moreau called talks with several NATO countries about using its AI command-and-control system HexaForce “quite advanced.” Thales announced the system’s availability last week, after a June NATO interoperability test in Poland.
HexaForce is designed to provide command and control from army corps level down to battalion and plug into legacy and national systems. Thales says its open architecture follows NATO standards, lets users choose their own large language model and includes agentic AI for preparing targeting missions. The company set a goal with end users of planning 1,000 target missions a day, a tenfold increase.
For threats identified at strategic command level, HexaForce can propose courses of action, including firing options using air or land forces, and send an operator-selected targeting mission to the tactical level. Moreau said operators choose whether to act and that there is “no automated action.” He also said the system is already in the hands of armed forces. France is developing the sovereign C2 system Arcadia; whether HexaForce becomes a cornerstone of it is not Thales’ decision.
