TALII IITailored Augmentation Leveraging Integrated Information

Operators and analysts in modern Air and Space Operations Centers (AOC) must gather and synthesize information from a variety of disparate sources in order to monitor the state of networks and services identify and characterize cyber threats, and recommend courses of action (COAs) to mitigate threats in complex, interdependent operational environments. Current approaches can provide simple alerts, but struggle to provide a complete picture of operational constraints and impacts. We propose the Tailored Augmentation Leveraging Integrated Information (TALII) system, an adaptive visual analytics tool that leverages context-aware course-of-action recommendation and perceptually-grounded cyber-spatial visualization design to support situation awareness and efficient decision-making in a cyber-integrated AOC. TALII integrates multiple sources of incoming information into a context engine, whichmaintains awareness of the current mission state and the state of incoming data. This model of context is then combined with perceptually-driven design principles to tailor a visual analytics interface for users in the AOC that highlights important information and selects appropriate level of detail to maintain situation awareness. Course of action visualization and recommendation helps users make faster and more effective decisions under changing conditions.