AI-Enabled, Automated Course of Action (COA) Generation and Threat Visualization for IPB

Soldiers require an Intelligence Preparation of the Battlefield process that is scalable, user-friendly, and leverages the latest in artificial intelligence and machine learning; however, the current tools available for IPB inhibit timely and accurate inputs to the military decision-making process, costing our Soldiers time and battlefield awareness. This is well pronounced in course of action creation, validation, and threat tracking IPB tasks. Our IPB and minefield breaching software, PATH, uses AI to overcome these shortfalls. PATH provides a 90 percent time savings and identifies safer and faster COAs for Soldiers when compared to current manual methods. Our proposed adaptation for this project will extend these same time savings and increase Soldier safety and lethality by arming them with accurate Threat COAs, simplified visualization of threat entities through entity resolution and clustering methods, and COA validation and updates based on new data.