Situation Awareness for Plan Impact Extrapolation and Nomination Tool (SAPIENT)

Operational level plans are organized into lines of operations (LOOs), with explicit decision points and alternate action sequences. Every operation requires assessment and a means to adapt rapidly to the changing environment. Staffs expend tremendous effort assembling information on the environment and measuring progress, leaving less time for interpretation, projection, and re-planning. We propose to develop Situation Awareness for Plan Impact Extrapolation and Nomination Tools (SAPIENT) to help interpret and respond to incoming data and reports. SAPIENT will include three core features: (1) LOO capture and understanding, leveraging Stottler Henke"s existing campaign design tools, (2) incoming data understanding, incorporating semantic data modeling, and (3) inferencing to bridge gaps between data and LOOs, exploiting artificial intelligence technologies. In addition, SAPIENT will provide (4) interactive situation assessment visualizations connecting plan status with data interpretation and trends and (5) access to records of past plan deviations and consequences to recommend re-planning options, exploiting case-based reasoning technology. During Phase I we will elaborate the features listed above to determine the appropriate scope of SAPIENTspecifically, the supportable range of plan descriptions, environmental data, plan deviations, and re-planning tasks. Finally, we will develop system architecture, module designs, and development plans for a Phase II prototype.