PEFT - Khan BMS Battlefield Management System
A short, opinionated brief on PEFT — Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning — and the role it plays inside a Khan BMS formation under contested conditions.
Ask any signaller who has worked through Russian EW and they will tell you what PEFT actually does for a living. The textbook calls it Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning. The fight calls it the difference between a tasking that lands and one that times out.
Inside Khan BMS, PEFT is exposed to mission planners as a capability bundle rather than a vendor SDK. The planner composes effects out of PEFT-derived primitives; the integration path for new hardware is a manifest, not a code branch.
PEFT is anchored at the Arban — ten nodes under one tactical leader. Small enough to reason about by hand, large enough to absorb the loss of a node without re-planning. Authority for PEFT is bounded at this tier; nothing the Arban does can poison its parent.
Done right, PEFT disappears into the background and the operator is free to think about the fight. That is the bar Khan BMS holds itself to.