U.S. Air Force Adopts C3 AI to Conserve Fuel Use, Increase Flight Efficiency
August 21 2023 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
AI application reduces time-to-insight by 92%,
from three days to two hours
C3 AI (NYSE: AI), the Enterprise AI application software
company, today announced that the U.S. Air Force will adopt a C3 AI
air logistics optimization application to conserve flight energy as
a new order under a previous U.S. Department of Defense (DoD)
agreement.
To optimize energy use across aircraft, the C3 AI air logistics
optimization application uses information such as sensor and
mission data to create prediction models that help DoD leaders
establish more efficient flight protocols, ultimately lowering fuel
consumption without compromising combat capability. The application
has been shown to significantly increase the accuracy and
reliability of fuel consumption predictions, which can ultimately
lead to — through faster and more accurate analyses — more
efficient use of fuel and reduce the impact of fuel use on the
climate.
“Our work within the DoD has led to significant efficiency and
productivity improvements, most recently proven when the Air Force
designated a C3 AI application as the system of record for all new
predictive maintenance programs across the department,” said C3 AI
CEO Thomas M. Siebel. “We’re proud of the work C3 AI is doing
across the DoD to deliver immense value and show how adoption of
commercial AI solutions accelerates results, including this most
recent application that optimizes fuel use for the Air Force.”
The C3 AI air logistics optimization application fuses aircraft
sensor and mission data to analyze the effectiveness of operational
energy initiatives. This application can reduce the time from raw
data collection to AI insights by 92% — from three days to around
two hours. This is made possible by the C3 AI Platform, which can
automatically process significant amounts of data easily and report
findings into a user-friendly dashboard.
The pilot project for this application generated such robust
results that the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU), a DoD organization
focused on accelerating the adoption of commercial technology,
issued a success memo detailing the highlights of the program. A
success memo allows the DoD and other government organizations to
quickly acquire and adopt the technology.
Air logistics optimization is the third C3 AI project that DIU
has facilitated — the first, the Predictive Analytics and Decision
Assistant (PANDA), was recently named the system of record for all
U.S. Air Force Rapid Sustainment Office Condition Based Maintenance
Plus (CBM+) predictive analytics projects.
The second project enables the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) to
create, in minutes, tens of thousands of physically realistic
AI-generated trajectories with only a small set of training data
and physics rules, providing up to a 100-fold increase in model
generation capacity and speed.
This third project, air logistics optimization, transitioned
after C3 AI successfully completed a prototype other transaction in
May 2023. It allows for follow-on production contracts from any
government organizations with similar problem sets directly with C3
AI.
About C3.ai, Inc.
C3 AI is the Enterprise AI application software company. C3 AI
delivers a family of fully integrated products, including the C3 AI
Platform, an end-to-end platform for developing, deploying, and
operating enterprise AI applications, C3 AI applications, a
portfolio of industry-specific SaaS enterprise AI applications that
enable the digital transformation of organizations globally, and C3
Generative AI, a suite of large AI transformer models for the
enterprise.
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