Distributed Missions and Means Framework

GCAS is designing a Distributed Missions and Means Framework (DMMF) with the key objective to develop a system that will facilitate distributed missions planning and execution in complex dynamic environments with a focus on distributed missions and means planning and mixed-initiative interactions with the human user. By understanding the fundamental technical challenges faced by our military commanders on and off the battlefield, we can help ease the burden of decision-making. DMMF will lay the foundations for retrieving, analyzing, synthesizing, and disseminating information to military commanders and also provides linkage from low-level state changes to mission success. DMMF integrates top-down planning with a bottom-up employment that learns to locally combine actions. The end product will provide military planners and analysts with additional capability to measure progress using both qualitative and quantitative metrics, conduct analysis and establish clear interdependencies between task outputs and the mission goals.