Cultural Tactical Advisor for Warfighters in the Urban Battlespace

Abstract

We are developing a mobile handheld system that provides tactical and cultural advice to warfighters. The system fuses built-in knowledge of social factors and location specific information with dynamically entered situation descriptions to produce an assessment of the situation and recommend actions. The outcomes include the system's confidence in its recommendations, along with explanations of its reasoning. The result gives warfighters the information they need to make the critical decisions necessary to accomplish their mission, while minimizing the collateral damage that alienates the local populace.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 2006
Accession Number
ADA481466

Entities

People

  • Alicia Ruvinsky
  • Benito Mendoza
  • Jose Vidal
  • Michael Huhns
  • Scott Langevin

Organizations

  • University of South Carolina

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • C4I
  • Human Systems
  • Sensors
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Battlespace
  • Bayesian Networks
  • Collateral Damage
  • Command And Control
  • Command Centers
  • Computers
  • Detectors
  • Mobile Devices
  • Models
  • Networks
  • Passive Sensors
  • Probability
  • Reasoning
  • Sensor Networks
  • Social Networks
  • South Carolina
  • Wireless Sensor Networks

Readers

  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
  • Military and Counterinsurgency Studies.
  • Systems Analysis and Design