Babcock International has launched Nomad, an artificial intelligence-powered communications intelligence tool that, according to the company, will allow frontline forces to process and act on information in real time.
The system was unveiled at DSEI 2025.
Nomad is described by Babcock as its first fully AI-powered product, capable of cleaning, transcribing, translating and analysing voice and text data in seconds. The company says this will provide soldiers and security services with actionable intelligence even in communications-denied environments, where access to command centres is limited.
According to Mission Systems chief executive Neal Misell, “Nomad can give end-users the ability to make critical decisions where every second counts and lives are at risk – even when they are cut off from a command and control centre.”
The company argues that Nomad addresses a global shortage of linguists and analysts able to keep pace with the demands of modern battlefields. It has been designed to operate independently of external AI services, a point Babcock stresses as key to ensuring security and resilience.
Babcock also points to its growing investment in AI, noting that earlier this year it joined the UK Sovereign AI Industry Forum set up by NVIDIA. That initiative aims to strengthen national economic security and accelerate domestic AI capabilities.
Alexa goes to war.
Guess no more need for Windtalkers eh?
I can imagine a book by William Gibson where as a last ditch ploy they engage in chav or bogan talk to communicate in code 😉 Neal Stephenson used it in Cryptonomicon and in The Baroque Cycle with the “Qwghlmians” who are a fictional people from a fictional archipelago located off the northwestern coast of Scotland.
Definately has its uses at a nitty-gritty level.
Let buy it, we like paying a lot for things you can not see, put troops in or defend the skies with. Can they give it a nice project name and talk about then pay massive amounts for it. Mean while we have 14 Spg’s for the entire army. less than 200 working tanks, no drone defence, no AEW aircraft, no landing ships, doing pretty well then. The defence sec says speed up buying things! such as?. We have we bought loads of stuff none of which is offensive or in any way useful to troops in the fight. Outstanding.
Its ok though its all in hand we are looking at new rifles, drone defence, new SPG’s, may be an IFV, but not ordered any yet, just looking. Still not even replaced ammo stocks we gifted to Ukraine. If any enemy can wait until 2030 all will be fine.
oops, typo … Definitely