By Arie Egozi, Autonomy Global – Ambassador for Israel
AI is playing an essential role in Omnisys’s BRO-AD (Battle Resource Optimization for Air Defence), a decision-support system that optimizes the use of advanced air and missile defence systems under sustained, high-intensity attack.
The Israel Arrow 3 air defence system is part of the German air defense system.
Germany plans to integrate the Omnisys AI-driven BRO capability as a proven sustainment tool for Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD) and Integrated Air and Missile Defence (IAMD).
The German plan is based on lessons from NATO’s Dynamic Front 26 exercise. It showed that interceptor inventories can be exhausted within days which turned air defence from a capability challenge into an endurance challenge. Recent multinational NATO exercises across Europe, including the Dynamic Front 26 series, have tested the ability to detect, track and engage up to 1,500 targets in the first 24 hours of conflict, while intercepting between 600 and 1,200 ballistic missiles, cruise missiles and UAVs.
According to Omnisys, these scenarios highlight a new operational reality. While detection and engagement performance continues to improve, sustaining that performance under prolonged, high-intensity attack has become a strategic challenge. In such scenarios, interceptor expenditure can outpace replenishment within days. This creates a structural survivability constraint that directly affects whether nations can maintain effective air defence beyond the first waves of attack.
BRO-AD is designed to close this gap by serving as a critical optimization layer for forces facing emerging NATO-level threat densities. The vendor-agnostic, software-driven platform models available inventories, weapon performance parameters, environmental conditions and threat behaviour in real time. It generates AI-driven recommendations across the kill chain, from target prioritisation and effector selection to engagement sequencing and post-mission assessment.
In cross-border, multinational air defence operations, BRO-AD provides continuously updated decision recommendations, including defended-asset prioritisation, interceptor allocation and engagement sequencing. By reducing avoidable expenditure of high-value interceptors and preserving stocks across successive attack waves, the system extends operational endurance under sustained fire. All the while, it integrates immediately with existing air and missile defence architectures, sensors, interceptors and command-and-control systems, without waiting for new procurement cycles.
Beyond real-time battle management, BRO-AD also supports long-term force build-up planning through high-accuracy simulation and AI-based analysis. Defence authorities can use the system to compare alternative air defence architectures and procurement strategies against operational effectiveness and sustainability metrics.
BRO-AD integrates with existing C4I and command-and-control environments or can operate as an independent decision-support layer. The platform models mixed fleets from multiple suppliers while maintaining sovereign control over sensitive performance parameters, addressing both operational and policy requirements.
“Future air defence will be measured not only by interception capability, but by the ability to sustain defensive performance over time,” said Alfred (Fredi) Tzimet, Deputy CEO of Omnisys. “BRO-AD enables commanders to manage interceptor resources more intelligently, preserve high-value munitions, and maintain operational effectiveness across prolonged, high-intensity attacks.”