WEBINAR: AI for the Defense Industrial Base - Inside the GDMS Deep Learning Analytics Center of Excellence

November 4, 2026
2:00 pm ET / 11:00 am PT

The Defense Industrial Base faces mounting pressure to modernize, ranging from cybersecurity mandates to scaling advanced manufacturing and connecting data across complex supply chains. Scaling AI is key to enabling this, but only when built on a unified, governed data foundation. In this session, Greg Sloyer, Snowflake's Manufacturing Industry Principal, sets the stage with an overview of AI across the Defense Industrial Base, and shares the Connected Factory vision. Obaid Masih from General Dynamics Mission Systems then discusses how GDMS built a Deep Learning Analytics Center of Excellence on Snowflake, automating supplier PO extraction with DocAI, building ontology layers and knowledge graphs for cross-program visibility, and exploring agentic AI. Saad Facchine, Snowflake Sr. Solutions Engineer, will demo these capabilities in action.

Attend this webinar and learn:

AI Across the Defense Industrial Base: Snowflake's AI Data Cloud provides the unified, governed data foundation powering defense manufacturing use cases, from connected factories to supply chain resilience.
Deep Learning Center of Excellence: GDMS built a Deep Learning Analytics CoE on Snowflake, deploying DocAI for supplier PO extraction, contract intelligence tools, and agentic AI.
Ontology Layers & Secure Collaboration: GDMS uses ontology layers and knowledge graphs for cross-program supply chain visibility, with secure data sharing and clean rooms for prime-subcontractor collaboration - no data copying required.
AI-Ready Data Foundations: Reliable AI starts with reliable data - strong ingestion, governance, and quality at scale come first.
Start Now, Deliver Today: Building an AI-ready operation is an incremental journey, not a wholesale transformation - practical steps can start today.

Speakers:

Obaid Masih
Senior Principal Data Scientist, General Dynamics Mission Systems