Joint User-Centered Planning Artificial Intelligence Tools for Effective Mission Reasoning (JUPITER)

Effective mission planning is complex, as human operators must consider many variables (e.g., resource limitations, threats, risks) when formulating a plan to accomplish critical mission goals. Although powerful tools such as the Navy’s Collaborative Mission Planning Continuum (CMPC) provide advanced functionality, mission planning remains a hybrid activity across humans and mission planning tools. Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and intuitive user interfaces can facilitate an improved mission planning process. To effectively integrate these technologies into mission planning, under a Phase I and a Phase II effort, we designed and demonstrated Joint User-centered Planning Artificial Intelligence Tools for Effective Mission Reasoning (JUPITER), an AI-based mission planning framework founded on joint cognitive system principles united with streamlined workflows for effective and efficient mission planning. Under the sequential Phase II, we will expand prior analyses to identify opportunities for AI methods to support the mission planning process, such as to offload extensive manual processing and analysis of low-level information. The results of these analyses will be the expansion and refinement of the overall AI framework and an improved mission planning workflow. Finally, we will expand the breadth and depth of prototypes to demonstrate and evaluate JUPITER.