Advanced Tactical Battle Manager
Abstract
(U) The Advanced Tactical Battle Manager program develops automated decision support tools for Army and Marine Corps tactical commanders at the division level and below. The program provides support for combined operations employing dismounted soldiers, manned platforms, and autonomous vehicles through a graphical interface with unit commanders. The program also extends plans by applying adversarial reasoning techniques to identify vulnerabilities and opportunities in the predicted enemy course of action. Finally, it examines modifications or counteractions to reduce vulnerabilities. Program products will transition to the Services. (U) The effort is developing a support tool that autonomously and continuously, during the execution of a military operation, tracks the state of what is known about the environment and provides automated assistance to the process of collections planning to enable more effective, rapid, complete identification of the enemy's state. (U) The program will also develop integrated, in-theater tools for organizational design, cognitive resource configuration, and adaptive management of complex, often unconventional command and control (C2) structures. These tools will enable the U.S. military in real time to modify responsibilities, relations, tasks, and priorities to meet the rapidly changing needs of the command across multiple units, echelons, and organizations, while shaping the choices of countries at strategic crossroads. U.S. forces increasingly encounter complex C2 structures that include Coalition forces (manned and unmanned), civilian agency resources, indigenous formal and informal powers, and non-governmental organizations, and the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command has identified a critical gap in the technologies for agile configuration and analysis of C2 structures.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2011
- Source ID
- 992b676bb57fa47b27ef02c034a168fc