Space Mission Impact Assessment using Intelligent Resource Management Techniques .

The ultimate goal of this proposed effort is to improve the ability to respond to DCS situations by developing a DCS/SSA general scheduling service. This includes better quality resource allocations and schedules; faster response; handling larger, more complex situations; and handling additional system capabilities (i.e. more response types of activities and more capable sensor and other resources). The general scheduling service will be applied to AFSCN scheduling to create an automatic scheduling and deconfliction capability based on the current methods, procedures, and heuristics of the human AFSCN schedulers. Stottler Henke proposes to develop the full-scale general scheduling service integrated into the JSIP SOA and an automatic AFSCN scheduler/deconflictor in our current Aurora framework and integrate it with the appropriate AFSCN scheduling system. Included is coordination with the developers of JSIP DSC/SSA applications to understand their specific scheduling/resource assignment needs in order to ensure that the scheduling service will meet their requirements. Similarly, we will investigate AFSCN scheduling in detail. Both investigations and the full-scale development will require access to classified information to make sure the full complexity of the problems and all of the required and desired constraints and capabilities are handled. Stottler Henke has a TOP SECRET facility clearance. BENEFIT: The most direct targets for the results of this effort are DCS/SSA scheduling applications and the Space Communication Networks (AFSCN, DSN, GN, and SN). By our demonstrating significantly improved performance during Phase II and ensuring that the ultimate results can be integrated into the operational scheduling systems, the Air Force will have a strong incentive to operationalize the Phase II development of the proposed Scheduler. There are several commercialization possibilities available in the government and private sector. The algorithms developed here could be marketed to our existing Air Force and Navy sensor customers interested in sensor scheduling and coordination. We are already marketing Aurora, our general intelligent planning and scheduling framework, and customizing it for a variety of domains. The additional capabilities developed for DCS/SSA and communication scheduling can be synergistically marketed to the same clients. We anticipate that this effort will result in additional scheduling algorithms that we will be able to incorporate into our existing scheduling products, thus increasing the benefits they provide and their value.