Innovative Intelligent Agent and Cognitive Decision Aids Component Technology

A critical element of network centric fires management deals with overarching resupply logistics and sustainment issues. Effective sustainment will involve collaboration among intelligent software logistics agents to plan, distribute and coordinate the FCS resupply effort in a real-time, netcentric environment. Furthermore, a required complementary technology will consist of configurable, adaptable, plug and play, netcentric man-machine interface (MMI) agent components to facilitate the verification, interrogation and modification of the dynamic sustainment maneuvers orchestrated by logistic agents. Schedules, transport assets and routes, depot inventory, payload descriptions, etc. from the logistics agents will be fused and mapped into graphically interactive representations by the MMI agents. The MMI will enable constraints, payloads, priorities, etc. to be altered, which will redirect the efforts of the logistics agents. This program will demonstrate the dynamic interaction of distributed logistics agents with netcentric MMI agents to provide exceptional visual decision aids. This program will accomplish the following tasks: 1- Simulate FCS resupply scenarios, in which the logistics agents collectively formulate the best deployment of resources. 2- Provide netcentric, mobile, highly interactive MMI agents, which graphically and dynamically convey the FCS resupply deployment maneuvers with respect to payload distribution, transport routes, schedules, etc. for human interpretation, modification, and verification.