Mission Planning Application for Submarine Operations and Risk Management

Submarine operations are increasingly complex and lack automated support. This has made mission planning and conduct cumbersome, labor-intensive, and error prone. As a result, PEO-IWS5 and ONR developed and fielded the AN/BYG-1 Mission Planning Application (MPA) to help streamline mission planning workflow. To assist with further streamlining of mission planning workflows, Sonalysts Phase I SBIR developed a prototype Operations Status Board (OSB) interface and demonstrated use-cases for it. Phase I mapped tactical system data sources to OSB data frame requirements and proposed a framework for continuously monitoring status and automatically alerting operators when status cannot support upcoming mission plan events or other ship evolutions.In Phase II, Sonalysts proposes to develop an OSB prototype as an Ozone Widget plug-in application to the MPA. Phase II research tasks include status board workflow analysis, Commanding Officer interviews to evolve the content and layout of OSB data frames, implementation of risk assessment considerations as alert algorithms, and development of use-case scenarios. Phase II software development includes software and data architecture, updated mapping of data sources to requirements, development and test of a prototype OSB, and integration with MPA. The Phase II Option will integrate the OSB into the APB 4-Step testing process.