Immersive Multi-modal Fusion for Operational Real-time Capability Evaluation (IMFORCE)

Naval warfighters operating in contested maritime environments must make rapid, high-stakes decisions based on an overwhelming volume of sensor and intelligence data. These decisions often involve coordinating forces across multiple domains including sea, air, land, space, and cyber, while responding to dynamic threats such as missile strikes, unmanned systems, and adversarial assets. However, the current approach to situational awareness and mission planning relies heavily on manual analysis by multidisciplinary teams, who must sift through disparate datasets to interpret adversary movements, assess vulnerabilities, and develop response strategies.This time-consuming, human-centric process is vulnerable to error, cognitive bias, and missed indicators, resulting in delayed or suboptimal decision-making. The challenge is magnified by the complexity of modern naval operations, where joint planning, red/blue force simulation, and real-time mission rehearsal are essential for maintaining an advantage. Todayís tools lack the immersive realism, automated content generation, and intelligent adversary modeling needed to support these critical workflows. Operators are left with static visuals, siloed data feeds, and limited simulation capability, making it difficult to explore "what-if" scenarios, validate engagement plans, or rehearse responses in a collaborative setting. Despite advances in virtual environments and AI, there remains no unified system that can fuse multi-source intelligence into high-fidelity, adaptive 4D simulations with traceable logic and real-time user interaction. Without an intelligent, immersive platform to support operational foresight and dynamic mission rehearsal, naval teams continue to face elevated risk, coordination breakdowns, and diminished decision superiority.To address the urgent need for rapid, accurate, and collaborative decision-making in contested maritime environments, Machina Cognita Technologies Inc. (MCT), in partnership with TRACE, proposes the Immersive Multi-modal Fusion for Operational Real-time Capability Evaluation (IMFORCE) system. IMFORCE is designed to transform raw multi-source intelligence into immersive, AI-generated 4D operational environments that enhance situational awareness, scenario rehearsal, and strategic planning. Leveraging generative mesh algorithms and large language models (LLMs), IMFORCE enables users to generate complex naval engagement scenarios from simple natural language prompts. These scenarios ranging from adversarial submarine positioning in underwater tunnels to coastal missile strikes, are rendered in real-time through advanced text-to-3D capabilities and enriched by retrieval-augmented generation pipelines that ground decisions in doctrinal data. IMFORCE not only supports dynamic simulation of red/blue force strategies using AI, but also incorporates bias detection and explainability metrics to ensure transparent, data-driven planning.Ý