GUEST BLOG: Smarter by design – How AI Is rewriting the rules of defense engineering - Blog
June 11, 2025Today’s defense and intelligence missions face a persistent challenge in that high-fidelity optics and sensor systems are expensive and slow to produce. The sector remains stuck in the size, weight, power, and cost (SWaP-C) dilemma, where engineering tradeoffs restrict performance, delay innovation, and increase costs. However, artificial intelligence (AI) can now be harnessed to model millions of design iterations in seconds, allowing for advances in materials such as metasurfaces and metalenses to be incorporated into exquisite optic and system systems helping to overcome traditional SWaP-C limitations.