Deploying an Intelligent Pairing Assistant for Air Operation Centers

Abstract

Within an Air Operations Center (AOC), planners make crucial decisions to create the air plan for any given day. They are expected to complete the plan in part by pairing targeting or collection tasks with the available platforms. Any assistance these planners can acquire to help create the plan in a timely manner would make the entire process more efficient and effective. This paper describes the Intelligent Pairing Assistant (IPA) decision aid, which provides pairing recommendations at specific decision points in the planning process. IPA is deployed as a plug-in to the Master Air Attack Plan Toolkit (MAAPTK) software system already in use within AOCs. The primary contributions of this case study are applying artificial intelligence techniques to a novel domain and discussing the software evaluation efforts in moving from a prototype to a deployed system in this high-stakes domain.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 23, 2016
Accession Number
AD1016427

Entities

People

  • Bart Presnell
  • Drew Decker
  • Eric Geiselman
  • Jeremy Ludwig
  • Kevin Light
  • Les Loomis

Organizations

  • Stottler Henke Associates

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • C4I
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Aircrafts
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Case Studies
  • Command And Control
  • Data Sets
  • Graphical User Interface
  • Intelligent Systems
  • Models
  • Multiagent Systems
  • New York
  • Prototypes
  • Training
  • United States
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
  • User Interface

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Aerospace logistics and air mobility.
  • Database Systems and Applications
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - DoD AI Strategy