From the cited article ...

... "The reason you need AI help is because, instead of a handful of missiles, or a dozen or so from North Korea or Iran, now we're talking about what could be dozens and dozens or hundreds from Russia or China. There's a quantity challenge and then there's a time challenge," one attendee said. "You want to be able to hit these as quickly as you can, and AI can sort through that much, much faster than a human can."

Officials didn't provide details on what an AI-enabled fire control concept would mean in practice, but some aspects of missile defense, such as target warning, already have AI elements. ...

[Dan Wald, director of artificial intelligence at Booz Allen Hamilton] described it as "moving the human from 'in the loop' to 'on the loop' for fire control ... This smart fire control can basically give recommendations for intercept or for applications of resources. This is where we can reduce the amount of people that are necessary to close that loop from a dozen to, you know, two men in a can." ...

Are the defense contractors over-selling AI in order to obtain lucrative defense contracts?