About This AI Online Course
Artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping how defense organizations plan, decide and act in complex operational environments—enabling unprecedented speed, scale and precision in mission execution.
As AI becomes increasingly embedded in military operations, understanding how it transforms the targeting process—while introducing new risks and ethical considerations—is essential to maintaining decision advantage and mission success.
Like other AI-enabled defense applications, these technologies enhance analysis and decision making but also introduce new operational challenges and uncertainties that must be managed deliberately.
This online course provides a comprehensive introduction to the intersection of AI and military targeting. You will learn about the fundamentals of targeting, including deliberate and dynamic targeting, the F2T2EA (Find, Fix, Track, Target, Engage, Assess) cycle and the role of targeting in achieving tactical, operational and strategic objectives. Building on this foundation, you will explore how AI technologies, such as computer vision, generative AI and agentic systems—can be applied across each phase of the targeting process to improve intelligence analysis, automate planning, enhance prioritization and enable faster, more informed decision making.
You will gain new knowledge in how AI can transform key targeting functions, including intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance collection management, multi-sensor data fusion, predictive analytics for enemy behavior and automated assessment of effects. Through practical examples, you will understand how AI can increase both efficiency (doing things faster and with fewer resources) and effectiveness (making better decisions aligned with mission objectives).
Lastly this online course addresses the critical risks and limitations of AI-enabled targeting. Topics include adversarial manipulation of AI systems, bias in training data, lack of explainability, unintended escalation, cognitive atrophy and the erosion of accountability in high-stakes decisions.
By the end of the course, you will be better equipped to evaluate when and how AI should be integrated into targeting operations—ensuring it enhances, rather than undermines, mission success.
What You Will Learn
- Explain how trust is defined and evaluated in artificial intelligence systems
- Analyze the causes and operational implications of hallucinations in LLMs
- Identify key risks and vulnerabilities across AI systems, including adversarial attacks and data exposure
- Assess when AI outputs can be relied upon in a defense context
Who Should Take This Online Course
This online training course is designed for defense or intelligence professionals working for the Federal government or government contractor companies who wish to learn about military targeting and AI.
More seasoned professionals will also benefit from this online training experience to obtain a refresher on the critical subject matter.
Prerequisites
None. However, prior completion of the FedLearn course, Introduction to AI/Machine Learning Concepts & Terminology (AIDATA109), is highly recommended.
Course Certificate
To achieve a course certificate of completion, you must score 80 percent or higher on a graded quiz.
Course Format
Self-paced, online training course
Course Pricing
Individual courses are $9.99 (per person).
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If you are interested in learning about special team rates for Federal government and government contractor organizations, email [email protected]
Continuing Professional Education Credits
This course provides 1 CPE.
