Inferring Mission Perils using Aggregate Cube Thresholds (IMPACT)

ABSTRACT:Historically, including weather advice within on-going deliberations and planning has relied largely on a time consuming process of disconnected mental fusion of various sources from different systems to gain a shared understanding of the natural battlespace. The application of weather advice on a near real-time basis has been largely ignored except for very specific missions and locations. The proposed IMPACT system promises to provide innovative/revolutionary ways of dynamically generating/assessing weather constraints on military operations and incorporating the results (weather risk management/advice) into active, agile decision-support applications within high tempo, dynamic environments. It offers a novel approach that: addresses high dimensionality, is built for massive scalability, incorporates uncertainty, produces actionable advice, and is interoperable with USAF systems. During Phase I, the project team will conduct research, design, and prototyping of the IMPACT system in order to assess and demonstrate the technical feasibility of the solution.BENEFIT:Our proposed approach will offer Decision Support Applications, a new set of services and components that can be used to efficiently request constraint generation for planned operational activities and receive actionable advice. This capability could support many USAF weather systems such as JET and WDAC as well as similar systems at US Navy and NOAA. Additionally, many different C2ISR systems (e.g., AMC, NASIC, DCGS-AF, DCGS-A) require similar weather impact/effects analysis.