Modeling Organizational Behavior within Operations Other than War

"Human behavioral modeling techniques for Operations Other Than War (OOTW) simulation need to be improved to more accurately represent the rich set of potential players (refugees, civilians, terrorist groups, criminal groups, questionable allies.) and ofpotential inputs to influence behavioral outcomes (psyops, weather, hunger, accidents, alarming news, political negotiations.). Going forward, the DoD will rely more heavily on course of action analysis tools that represent the asymmetrical environment,as opposed to the classic, Soviet-era, rigid doctrinal warfare models. There are few wargaming tools in the operational inventory that provide this necessary predictive capability. M¿K proposes to integrate a neural network controller, trained withscenario data from the Pristina Air Base Scenario, with MAK's COTS, VR-Forces CGF product. The VR-Forces internal radio network architecture will be expanded with the capability to pass human communication interactions between simulation objects (speech,propaganda, external noises, etc.). A basic set of behavioral state variables will be implemented in the neural network controller, representing the commander of each force. At the end of Phase II, a new VR-Forces release will contain a neural networkcontroller toolkit (perhaps as an add-on module) that will provide reconfigurable modeling of non-doctrinal combatants for OOTW simulation. At the end of Phase I, M¿K will have a strong foundat