{"id":238310,"date":"2026-05-02T14:26:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T18:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/02\/idf-commander-integrated-ai-big-data-changed-the-game-during-war-with-iran\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T15:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T19:25:08","slug":"idf-commander-integrated-ai-big-data-changed-the-game-during-war-with-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/02\/idf-commander-integrated-ai-big-data-changed-the-game-during-war-with-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"IDF commander: integrated AI, big data changed the game during war with Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/defense-and-tech\/article-894775\">IDF commander: integrated AI, big data changed the game during war with Iran<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/defense-and-tech\/article-894775\">https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/defense-and-tech\/article-894775<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-02 14:26:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.jpost.com\">www.jpost.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Matzpen, the IDF unit most responsible for integrating and relaying artificial intelligence and \u201cbig data\u201d intelligence across the military, played a critical role in transforming the air force\u2019s effectiveness during the recent war with Iran, its commander, Col. Rotem Beshi, told The Jerusalem Post in an exclusive interview.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">A new system managed by Matzpen, known as the LOCHEM system, handled all the planning for attacks on Iran, starting with working with the air force\u2019s special, relatively new Iran unit, said Beshi, 38.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">According to Beshi, during the war, Matzpen\u2019s digital applications and processes \u201chelped decide priorities and helped integrate the planning of whole waves of attacks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">He said that gathering certain data to make operational decisions, which used to take days, can be done in hours, or in some cases, minutes, and that Matzpen is pushing to get nearly all the processes that connect to emergent situations down to minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Part of this process was sped up by the formation of a brigade-sized IDF unit, announced in December, to address the spread of artificial intelligence use across the military, including the Matzpen unit.<\/p>\n<p>A technologist with the Israeli military&#8217;s Matzpen operational data and applications unit works at her station, at an IDF base in Ramat Gan, Israel. (credit: NIR ELIAS\/REUTERS)<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">All of these units are part of the Communications and Cyber Defense Command, headed by Maj.-Gen. Aviad Dagan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Matzpen could be working on a couple of dozen new applications at a time to improve the military\u2019s offensive and defensive capacities.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"section-12\" class=\"article-header-section article-body-paragraph injected\"><strong>The work is integral to all of the military\u2019s major successes<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">If in the recent past, developing complex new applications to confront new challenges took months or years, now the military develops new programs much more rapidly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Overall, Beshi\u2019s goal is for IDF field commanders to feel they are dealing with a familiar, user-friendly technological world that empowers them to better carry out the war\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/defense-and-tech\/article-894775\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IDF commander: integrated AI, big data changed the game during war with Iran https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/defense-and-tech\/article-894775 Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":238311,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.jpost.com\/image\/upload\/f_auto,fl_lossy\/q_auto\/c_fill,g_faces:center,h_720,w_1280\/718850","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238310"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238312,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238310\/revisions\/238312"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}