Safran.AI and TII Partner on Agentic AI for Geospatial Intelligence

French defense contractor Safran.AI and the UAE-based Technology Innovation Institute (TII) have entered a strategic partnership to develop an advanced agentic AI geospatial intelligence platform, marking a significant advancement in autonomous defense technology.

The collaboration, announced following the Dubai Airshow, aims to create field-ready solutions that leverage agentic AI—a technology that extends beyond traditional generative AI by enabling systems to take independent action and make autonomous decisions based on data analysis.

“We believe that AI agents and new-generation AI capabilities could serve clients and end users better and more efficiently,” said TII CIO Chawki Kasmi. The partnership seeks to combine Safran.AI’s operational intelligence architecture with TII’s orchestration technology for persistent, all-weather monitoring across diverse imaging sources.

Unlike conventional geospatial analysis tools that answer “what” questions, agentic AI systems developed through this partnership will address the “why”—providing deeper contextual understanding. Safran.AI Deputy CEO François Bourrier Soifer explained: “What you want to understand is why that kind of aircraft is on the airfield, what level of threat it poses for that operation, and this goes beyond basic order of battle. It helps understand the situation autonomously.”

The initiative encompasses three core deliverables: an agentic geospatial reasoning system to support operator decision-making, an AI detector factory for creating and updating models using sovereign national data, and an autonomous multisession engine for continuous all-weather monitoring.

Development will proceed simultaneously in France and the UAE, with both partners committed to applying the Modular Open System Approach (MOSA) principle. This enables military and intelligence agencies to integrate the platform into existing command and control infrastructure without requiring wholesale system replacement.

While the partnership was recently announced, the firms report having already launched initial AI agents. They project an operational version ready within 12 months. Notably, the companies envision applications extending well beyond the Gulf region, positioning this technology for broader international defense and intelligence markets.

This collaboration underscores the accelerating convergence of French defense innovation and Middle Eastern technological advancement in next-generation autonomous systems.

Source ID: SRCE-2025-1764612286518-1047