IDA: Intelligent Digital Assistant

With the inevitable growth of target tracks in the naval battlespace from emerging low-cost Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), as well as large-scales raids, the Aegis console operator will suffer from information overload resulting in potentially catastrophic failure mode within the ship self-defense scenario. To address this critical need, Intelligent Automation, Inc. (IAI) proposes to develop a self-contained Intelligent Digital Assistant (IDA). IDA interacts with the operator via standard console input / output, and voice commands to provide more complete situational awareness and expedite console operations. IDA assists operators to navigate, retrieve, and understand the vast amount of data from multi-INT data sources. IDA then interacts with the combat systems to reduce operator inputs using voice commands to execute operator responses. IDA alerts the operator with critical events and recommend possible COAs in near real time as data becomes available. IDA will learn the operator behavior using AI techniques, and will continuously adapt itself to provide personalized information to the user that will be contextually relevant to the mission. IDA will be taught by the operator, albeit indirectly, identify and present relevant information sourced from disparate data banks relevant to the operator tasking.