COLLECTIVE COGNITIVE SYSTEMS AND INTERFACES
Abstract
(U) The Collective Cognitive Systems and Interfaces project will dramatically improve warfighter and commander effectiveness and productivity using advanced cognitive approaches that enable faster, better informed, and more highly coordinated actions than those of our enemies. This will be accomplished by developing revolutionary methods that increase our information processing capabilities, enhance our situational awareness, and enable more cohesive group action by our forces. Critical technical areas addressed in this project include automated decision support, information sharing, and ensured communications. Cognitive decision support tools reason about tasks, timings, and interactions so that when plans change or the enemy does not respond as anticipated, U.S. forces can quickly adapt. The quality of such decisions and the effectiveness of our actions depend critically on our ability to take full advantage of all available information in a rapid and flexible manner. This requires the capability to share information and to automatically integrate distributed information bases for broad tactical battlespace awareness. Finally, team cohesion requires effective and reliable communication in difficult environments such as urban settings where radio signal propagation is complex. Here the approach is to develop cognitive communications management and control algorithms that reason about channel conditions, higher-level application connectivity requirements and related factors, and decide (often as a group) what parameters each radio will use. The suite of programs under this project will significantly advance the military’s ability to successfully deal with complex situations in operational environments.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2011
- Source ID
- COG-03_0602304E_2_0400_PB_2011
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