Announced during the Dubai Airshow, the partnership will merge Safran.AI’s operational geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) experience with Technology Innovation Institute’s (TII) expertise in agentic AI and orchestration systems. The two organisations said the collaboration will deliver an autonomous reasoning engine capable of converting high-resolution satellite imagery into decision-grade intelligence and recommended courses of action.
Unlike traditional object-detection tools, the planned platform will combine human-in-the-loop oversight with advanced geospatial reasoning, giving defence operators the ability to interpret, predict and respond to emerging situations with far greater speed and precision.
The first step in the alliance was marked today with the signing of a collaboration agreement, paving the way for development work to begin.
The partners expect to focus on three key technology streams:
- Agentic geospatial reasoning systems, enabling analysts to interrogate complex scenarios in natural language, with context-rich assessments produced by a large language model trained on military use cases – reducing cognitive burden on operators.
- A mission-driven AI detector factory, designed to rapidly generate tailored detection models from minimal datasets, supporting data sovereignty and responsive, mission-specific configuration.
- An autonomous multimodal fusion engine, integrating Safran.AI’s intelligence architecture with TII’s orchestration platform to deliver persistent, all-weather monitoring and a real-time, unified operational picture.
Safran.AI chief executive Sébastien Fabre said the partnership builds on three decades of cooperation between Safran Electronics & Defense and the UAE.
“Through our alliance, we are committed to providing advanced solutions that support the needs of the intelligence community and strengthen national security and decision making in the field,” he said.
TII chief executive Dr Najwa Aaraj described the alliance as a major step towards sovereign geospatial intelligence capability.
“By integrating our agentic AI orchestration technologies with Safran.AI’s operational GEOINT expertise, we are advancing from analysis to autonomous understanding, where systems can reason, anticipate and act,” she said. “Together, we are building the foundations of decision intelligence that will strengthen national resilience and redefine how nations secure and interpret their operational environment.”
Under the agreement, Safran.AI and TII will stand up a single joint team operating across France and the UAE, working under a unified structure modelled on an operational command environment to accelerate innovation and deployment.