Modeling and Simulation With Operational Databases to Enable Dynamic Situation Assessment & Prediction

Abstract

The Air Force Research Laboratory is investigating a next-generation planning capability that combines advanced optimization discrete-event modeling and simulation technologies with operational databases to enable dynamic situational assessment and prediction in a live effects-based dynamic Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) Joint Command and Control (C2) environment. Combined capabilities were designed to facilitate dynamic re-planning in an effects-based C2 environment. The software developed for this effort provides a semi-automated planning system that suggest alternative courses of action when based on intelligence data re-planning is required. The plan is in the form of an Air Tasking Order (ATO) that declares mission objectives for aircraft assets. Measuring the effectiveness of a plan and determining when a plan has gone off course requires knowledge and representation of both the intended plan and real-world execution of the intended plan over time. This document captures the software design for a next-generation dynamic situational assessment and prediction capability that combines the latest advances in modeling & simulation technologies with control theory algorithms, optimization techniques, and operational databases.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 2010
Accession Number
ADA532874

Entities

People

  • Craig Lammers
  • Jeffrey S. Steinman

Organizations

  • WarpIV Technologies (United States)

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • C4I
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Algorithms
  • Command And Control
  • Communication Systems
  • Computer Architecture
  • Computers
  • Databases
  • Graphical User Interface
  • Grids
  • High Performance Computing
  • Information Systems
  • Kalman Filters
  • Military Research
  • Operating Systems
  • Simulations
  • Web Browsers

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
  • Joint Military Operations and Doctrine.

Technology Areas

  • Fully Networked C3
  • Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control