Using Cognitive Systems in Generation of Course of Action

This proposal will increase the efficiency of knowledge processing and decision making by the Objective Force by providing the warfighter with the software for supporting the process of developing the Course of Action (COA). The processing time will be reduced by more than an order of magnitude and the quality of the results will satisfy the highest standards of the quality achievable in automated decision making processes. Automated processing of data referenced in multiple documents is required for the Intelligence Preparation of the Battlefield process. The decision aids based upon COA are required for mission planning, activities simulation, and plan execution in the battlefield. COA combines geographic data with detailed descriptions that should be processed automatically. As a result of this research new technologies will be developed reducing required computations resources and efficiently utilizing knowledge of natural and man-made features. COA-based decision aids should be developed for multiple DOD elements with the goal to improve their integration and consistency of functioning. We employ new tools that allow for supporting nested and visualization tools helping to integrate descriptive, topographical and pictorial elevation information into a multiresolutional knowledge and data representation, thus forming a knowledge repository.