M-PRIMUS: Mission Planning for Resources in Integrated Mixed Undersea Systems

SIFT proposes to develop M-PRIMUS (Mission Planning for Resources in Integrated Mixed Undersea Systems), a suite of human-system interaction and intelligent decision-support tools, to make the growing capabilities of tactical AUSs accessible to Navy mission planning commanders and operators. SIFT brings a substantial array of state-of-the-art technology to bear on M-PRIMUS: (1) Playbook HSI will enable mission commanders to rapidly and flexibly convey their intent and maintain global awareness of multiple mixed manned and unmanned undersea, (2) SHOP2 will generate effective tasking of manned and unmanned assets within the acceptable boundaries of the commanders intent and global usage of resources, (3) THOR will provide alternative COAs by repairing mission plans, (4) MURPHY will generate critiques and explanations of how mission plans can fail, and (5) LOCI will serve both as a testbed for plan evaluation and as a subsequent interface for existing Navy legacy systems. In sum, M-PRIMUS will significantly empower TUSW mission planners by distributing manned and unmanned resources effectively across plans and across different missions, enabling them to improve total mission quality and force effectiveness and reducing the risk to manned units as the risks will already be analyzed and mitigated by M-PRIMUS before they are realized.