Distributed decision support for the 21st century mission space

William K. McQuay

doi:10.1117/12.474925

15 July 2002 Distributed decision support for the 21st century mission space

William K. McQuay

Proceedings Volume 4716, Enabling Technologies for Simulation Science VI; (2002) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.474925
Event: AeroSense 2002, 2002, Orlando, FL, United States

Abstract

The past decade has produced significant changes in the conduct of military operations: increased humanitarian missions, asymmetric warfare, the reliance on coalitions and allies, stringent rules of engagement, concern about casualties, and the need for sustained air operations. Future mission commanders will need to assimilate a tremendous amount of information, make quick-response decisions, and quantify the effects of those decisions in the face of uncertainty. Integral to this process is creating situational assessment-understanding the mission space, simulation to analyze alternative futures, current capabilities, planning assessments, course-of-action assessments, and a common operational picture-keeping everyone on the same sheet of paper. Decision support tools in a distributed collaborative environment offer the capability of decomposing these complex multitask processes and distributing them over a dynamic set of execution assets. Decision support technologies can semi-automate activities, such as planning an operation, that have a reasonably well-defined process and provide machine-level interfaces to refine the myriad of information that is not currently fused. The marriage of information and simulation technologies provides the mission commander with a collaborative virtual environment for planning and decision support.

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William K. McQuay "Distributed decision support for the 21st century mission space", Proc. SPIE 4716, Enabling Technologies for Simulation Science VI, (15 July 2002); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.474925

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