Counterplay and non-conventional AI-based red teaming

tactics21™ – the sandbox for Third Wave Tactical AI.

The synthetic battlespace where AI tactics are born.

With tactics21™, armed forces are able to develop tactical AI at scale. It provides a controlled, high-fidelity, theatre-scale virtual twin of the battlefield – the Defense Metaverse.

There, expert analysts can build realistic red teams which tactics21 AI models then are able to play. They can iteratively simulate collaborative behaviours, running the same simulation thousands of times. Tactics can trained, tested, and validated under realistic complex adversarial conditions – for individual domains or a combination of domains.

tactics21 – the benefits for armed forces:

High-fidelity realistic tactical simulation

Rapid counterplay and red teaming experimentation

Risk-free iteration and structured evaluation

Reusable tactical modules aligned with doctrinal standards

Seamless policy transfer into JATOC™

Simulate, train and evaluate to advance your tactics

Designed with clearly delineated safety boundaries, tactics21 enables trusted experimentation, structured evaluation, and continuous improvement without operational risk.

Evaluate overall force designs and to assess new and existing technologies and Portfolios, e.g. effective combinations of missiles and platforms for particular enemy tactics.

tactics21 also helps identify and understand insufficient pieces of logistics plans, as adversarial actions might threaten this piece of logistics.

Why tactics21 - the platform features:

Robust, adaptive AI policies

Thanks to AI gym/AI factory for policy optimization under uncertainty, with counterplay and non-conventional AI-based red teaming including access to decision frameworks.

Mission simulation and safe experimentation

Thanks to Defense Metaverse – the simulation-based AI test and evaluation environment, including realistic terrain, sensor/effector and damage models to validate and visualize tactical AI.

Plug-and-play tactical capabilities

Thanks to reusable, pretrained AI tactical modules (e.g. reconnaissance, surveillance, intercept, tactical swarm behaviour) trained in the AI gym and tailored to different mission types and military platforms.

The flagship AI platform from 21strategies

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Projects and studies

GhostPlay and GhostPlay@SEA

Consortial dtec.bw projects for German Armed Forces, with tacics21.

Thinking Before Sinking

Defense AI Observatory study about Red and Blue AI Tactics for Naval Combat.

"You are the only provider of such a sophisticated software ecosystem.
This is a key national technology."

Defense Procurement Official