Army Southern European Task Force, Africa turns to AI for wargaming

In a wargame last month to test crisis plans, the Army’s Southern European Task Force, Africa, or SETAF-AF, used artificial intelligence to enhance the approach.

“AI helps planners search curated data, answer doctrinal questions and prototype simulations,” Robin Kuo, a SETAF-AF strategist and planner, said in an Army release .

The wargame, part of a deployment readiness exercise at Vicenza, Italy, took advantage of Maven , the Pentagon’s flagship AI project that began in 2017.

While the Army didn’t provide details of the exercise, it described the wargame as a means to “stress-test the command’s response to real-world crises.”

“This exercise demonstrated how SETAF-AF remains a force multiplier for U.S. Army Europe and Africa and U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM), ready to rapidly respo