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The product provides an AI-generated response, acting like a chatbot, that informs users on how warfighters performed during a training event based on data from the company’s exercise control (EXCON) software suite.
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I/ITSEC 2025 — Saab is working on a minimum viable product (MVP) of an after-action review platform intended to provide feedback to warfighters based on their performances during training exercises, with the goal of getting warfighters to train more effectively, a company executive said.
Much like players watching film after a football game, after-action review platforms show warfighters how they performed during a training exercise. But with Saab’s new product, artificial intelligence is involved.
“It’s all about training and it’s all about people to get that confidence into the whole fight,” Joakim Alhbin, Saab’s vice president of training and simulation, told reporters on the sidelines of the I/ITSEC conference here in Orlando.
The plan is for an MVP for the platform, dubbed AR3, to be released at the end of the second quarter of calendar year 2026, according to the company. The product provides an AI-generated response, acting like a chatbot, that informs users on how warfighters performed during a training event. The results are based on data from the company’s exercise control (EXCON) software suite, which include sensors and GPS devices on both the warfighters and platforms like drones and ground vehicles.
For example, the user can ask, “How did platoon X perform?” and A3R will respond with detailed answers on what was successful and what was not based on pre-loaded goals and objectives the user inputs into the system.
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Saab has been working on after-action review platforms for several years, but bringing AI into the mix was must-do given that it can give much quicker feedback than humans can, James McArthur, director of training and simulation within Saab’s land system division, said.
“If I try to do it, even if I have like 10 of my best friends doing it, we’re going to miss things that we don’t even know we missed,” he said. “What this is going to allow [the customer to do] is it is not going to miss things. The customer is going to have to decide what they value. There’s going to be so much information, and they’re going to have to say, ‘Okay, we want this because this is what we value.”
Ed Jezisek, principal program manager of training and simulation for land systems at Saab, echoed McArthur’s sentiment, saying that without AI it is more difficult to evaluate what actually happened in an exercise with thousands of soldiers due to the mass amounts of data. He said this can ultimately lead to warfighters creating their own biases on who they think won an exercise. But with AI combing through all the data and generating a response, this can be solved, he said.
“We call it sometimes God’s truth, because we know based on where the different players are in the field, by their GPS positioning, we know exactly where they are,” Jezisek said. “There’s none of this, ‘I’m bigger than you, therefore I’m right.’ It’s basically unvarnished truth that we’re able to put out.”
Once the MVP is released, and if the platform is eventually on the market, the company said it hopes to sell it to countries that already use its EXCON suite, which include the UK, Poland, Denmark and more.
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