Effective Decision-Making Employing Human-Machine Teaming

Abstract

Commanders can make faster, better-informed operational-level decisions by integrating artificial intelligence with their intuition and experience. This paper examines how operational commanders rely on their subordinate commanders and robust staff to collect and analyze information to provide recommendations to aid command decision-making. If inadequate information or uncertainty is present, the commander relies on their intuition and experience to fill the gaps. Each variable in the current decision-making process has limitations in which AI technologies of big data analytics, machine learning, and neural networks aid commanders in decision-making. The paper introduces a Commander-AI Decision-Making Model (CAIDMM) synthesized within Col Boyd's Observe, Orient, Decide, and Act (OODA) loop to gain a marked advantage over an adversary. Lastly, this paper examines the so what and why operational commanders must use CAIDMM to gain a strategic advantage against near-peer competitors in today's great power competition.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 03, 2022
Accession Number
AD1178319

Entities

People

  • Michael Menna

Organizations

  • Naval War College

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Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • C4I
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Artificial Intelligence Software
  • Automata Theory
  • Automated Speech Recognition
  • Big Data
  • Cognition
  • Command And Control
  • Computer Languages
  • Computers
  • Data Analysis
  • Data Mining
  • Information Science
  • Machine Learning
  • Network Science
  • Neural Networks
  • Recognition
  • Students
  • Supervised Machine Learning
  • Unsupervised Machine Learning
  • War Colleges

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Joint Military Operations and Doctrine.
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

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