This DTO overcomes current limitations in the management and display of complex tactical information and addresses problems associated with differing perceptions of battlespace status; the depiction of aging, conflicting or uncertain data; data omissions; and depth of understanding. It facilitates rapid, effective decisions, resulting in improved force synchronization, reduced casualties, and faster realization of operational objectives. Required technologies include geo-information systems, uncertainty visualization, spatial- and temporal-based reasoning, knowledge bases, constraint-based and goal-directed reasoning, improved hardware performance, MMI innovations (3D/4D virtual and augmented reality, speech understanding, natural language and gesture/touch recognition, 3D audio, etc.), distributed/collaborative situation assessment, intelligent sentinels for alerts, mathematical modeling, and automatic target recognition.

During FY97, the program will develop and demonstrate case-based situation assessment tools and smart presentations depicting uncertainty, discontinuities, and temporal and spatial anomalies. It will address the issue of data quality due to sensor fidelity, reporting dropouts, network latency, etc. The FY98 goal is to develop and demonstrate a Joint Task Force battlespace awareness and visualization capability providing a consistent, accurate, comprehensive, and timely battlespace picture (C², intelligence, logistics, weather, obstacle, etc.). This picture will provide selectable detail and resolution and remote information links to continuously acquire and fuse multisensor/multimedia data with levels of uncertainty. By FY99, the program will demonstrate automated, integrated situation assessment and display applications, in addition to adding automated data validation and representation; intelligent agents for information retrieval, filtering, deconfliction, and mission-tailored presentation; and large, distributed databases. By FY00, the goal is to complete integration of automated capabilities across services and disciplines (maneuver, air-strike, naval, (littoral), intelligence, communication, transport, etc.) and demonstrate these capabilities in joint exercises, proving the ability to access and employ foreign, digitized/nondigitized, or commercial data for military purposes. The FY01 goal is to incorporate image understanding and multilingual speech and text understanding for joint and coalition operations worldwide. By FY02, the program will demonstrate fully automated situation assessment applications which fuse, assess, and innovatively present enemy intent and potential actions based on knowledge bases, encoded doctrine, constraint-based reasoning, and fused historical, political and military databases of regional activities; and will provide 3D/4D immersive interfaces to aid and speed cognition.

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By FY97, FRPA will provide products to serve as a model for lower echelon mission planning systems. By FY98, the program will develop and demonstrate an automated real-time capability to analyze and select alternative courses of action, construct and analyze forecasts, prioritize critical objectives, and develop plans to permit rapid rehearsal and evaluation of battlespace options. This development includes collaborative distributed planning and scheduling, negotiation, automated target/shooter pairing, problem detection and alerting, and interactive wargaming as an integral part of the rehearsal process. By FY99, FRPA will reduce the in-theater footprint of the Joint Force Air Component Command Air Operations Center by 60%. Planning will leverage the development of intelligent agents to initiate and sustain planning and forecasting. The FY00 goal is to reduce Tanker/Airlift Control Center staff by 40%, employ automated templates for generic mission planning, and utilize advanced knowledge bases for recognizing and predicting friendly and enemy force patterns and activities. FPRA will enable constraint/goal-based automated plan development for the CJTF, including collaborative development of multimedia operations orders and fragmentation orders, automated route planning for fighting and supporting units, and automated ISR/SEAD planning for ground, sea, and air-based platforms. Required technologies include modeling and simulation tied to geo-information systems, uncertainty visualization, spatial- and temporal-based reasoning, resource conflict resolution, knowledge bases, neural nets, Petri nets, constraint-based and goal-directed reasoning, improved speed and capacity hardware, MMI innovations, real-time distributed/collaborative planning and negotiation, intelligent agents for alerts and for data mining, search and retrieval, and mathematical modeling.

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During FY97, the program will develop and demonstrate real-time, single-echelon execution monitoring tools that display a deviation from plans, and provide automated recommendations for constraint-based or goal-based actions to "get back on track." It will demonstrate en-route/in-stride capabilities that permit similar flexibility afforded encamped forces, and identify and preview modified routes, alternative targets, and threats impacting a repaired plan. By FY98, IFEM will demonstrate the capability to monitor multiple-echelon plans, and perform real-time plan deconfliction across missions and near-real-time battle damage assessment. FY99 goals are to provide automated implementation of tactical contingency plans and synchronization with other ongoing elements; to provide collaborative execution monitoring among echelons and forces, incorporate uncertainty measures into plan repair functions, and integrate decision support for ISR and logistics operations linked with the ongoing battle; and to develop the capability to incorporate signature/spectrum management and the effects of sensor position options into the ongoing battle. By FY00, IFEM will demonstrate in-stride retasking/retargeting/weaponeering for multiple, dispersed units, including collaborative sensor detect/track, automated target assignment and engagement, and cooperative engagement and target handoff. By FY01/02, the program will provide four-dimensional representation of battle execution management. Fully coordinated operations across the force will result in faster adjustment of mission plans, a reduction in casualties and fratricide, and an improvement in force synchronization.

Required technologies include advanced applications such as modeling and simulation tied to geo-information systems, uncertainty visualization, spatial- and temporal-based reasoning, multivariable conflict resolution, knowledge bases, neural nets, Petri nets, constraint-based and goal-directed reasoning, improved speed and capacity hardware, display and MMI innovations, real-time distributed/collaborative planning and negotiation, intelligent agents for alerts and for data mining, search and retrieval, and mathematical modeling, real-time geo-referenced imagery, ATR and intent analysis, nodal analysis, etc.

In FY97, the program will develop first-generation runtime infrastructure, develop and test initial prototype object model development software, investigate innovative techniques for supporting scaleable executing systems using a high-level architecture (HLA), and develop an automated high-level architecture compliance testing capability. Runtime infrastructure capabilities will represent a 20% improvement in performance over proof-of-concept prototypes, and development tools will reduce object model development time by 25%. In FY98, the program will design and develop innovative industry-based runtime infrastructure software demonstrating increased performance (25% improvement) and broad-based portability (reduce cost of porting by 25%); extend HLA services to address user needs in advanced time, data distribution, and federation management (increasing user base by 10%); and demonstrate technologies to support larger scale federations (10% increase). FY99 goals include development of prototype for initial automated tools to support federation development (reducing time to create a new federation by 20%), and advanced system planning and runtime management tools to support the efficient operation of large-scale applications (20% less manpower). In FY00, increased advanced integrated automation will be applied to federation development and operation, demonstrating additional (20%) reduced costs to create a new federation. In FY01, runtime infrastructure advances using next-generation software and hardware will demonstrate increases (20%) in performance for the same cost, using readily available COTS software to replace 50% of custom software. In FY02, advanced support software will demonstrate automation of the end-to-end process of identifying candidate simulations; defining runtime data exchange requirements, network and computer resource requirements, configuration, operation, and monitoring of federation operation; and demonstrating a substantial decrease (50%) in time and manpower to support user application.

In FY97, the initial prototype of CMMS will be developed and will demonstrate distributed data collection for Joint Task Force-level exercises. In FY97/FY98, prototype conceptual models of the mission space will be available for use by the Joint Simulation System, Warrior Simulation 2000, National Air Space Model, and the Joint Warfare Simulation. The M&S VV&A recommended practices guide will be published. Pilot studies on the impact of security policies will be completed. Pilot studies of M&S VV&C procedures and guidelines will be initiated. The FY98 goal is an improved simulation infrastructure for 50,000 object exercises generating 500 GB of data. By FY99, the program will implement improved representations of synthetic environments in an updated compact terrain database format. Techniques for modeling complex data structures initiated in FY96 will be demonstrated and completed in FY00. By the FY00 timeframe, at least 50% of the major simulation program developers will have contributed to population of the CMMS. Conceptual models of the mission space will be used by the warfighter in validating doctrine, functions, tactics, techniques, and procedures. By FY02 and beyond, CMMS will represent DoD activities, and warfighters will have worldwide access to conceptual models of DoD processes. These new capabilities are focused on supporting modeling and simulation system developers in providing operationally valid, consistent representations of functional roles and relationships. These efforts will specifically support the Synthetic Theater of War ACTD.

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In FY97/FY98, this DTO will provide (1) a capability to rapidly generate terrain databases for a 2,500-km² area to support a 72-hour crisis rehearsal; (2) enhanced system representations, under development by the services; (3) tools and technical methods used to acquire knowledge and better represent human (individual and group) behavior; and (4) extend CFOR command entities to battalion level and demonstrate the rapid generation of CGF adaptive behaviors. FY99/01 developments will include (1) the capability to generate and interchange integrated consistent synthetic environments (terrain, oceans, atmosphere, and space) at multiple resolution within 72 hours; (2) representations of the effects of human C² decision-making processes in company- and battalion-level surrogates, and providing more variable, less deterministic individual and group behaviors. In the FY02+ timeframe, DTO-developed tools will enable dynamic, scaleable (micro to macro) adjustments to the synthetic environmental representations in simulations running in real time, and representations of the C² decision-making process will be extended to the brigade, division, and corps surrogate levels.

These efforts will specifically support the Synthetic Theater of War (STOW 97) ACTD and joint modeling and simulation system developments like JSIMS, JWARS, JCOS, JLOTS, improved CGFs, and C⁴ISR interfaces, as well as DoD's battlefield visualization program. Coordination of efforts is essential with the Sensors, Electronics and Battlespace Environment technology area, and the Rapid Battlefield Visualization (RBV), Battlefield Awareness and Data Dissemination (BADD), and STOW ACTDs.

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In FY97, the program will demonstrate an HLA-compliant prototype MRCI for a few C⁴ systems (AFATDS, MCS, CTAPS). By FY98, MRCI will be further developed to support larger numbers of C⁴I systems. Interfaces are planned for JSIMS and GCCS. In FY98, the goal is to demonstrate a 100% increase in USMTF, VMF, and TACFIRE message set size, and to integrate MRCI capability and COMPASS services to develop a comprehensive set of M&S services within DII COE Version 3.0. In FY99-01, the program will expand upon the success of the MRCI to develop bidirectional reconfigurable interfaces to other live weapons and sensor systems and test and training ranges. In FY02, the goal is to initiate development of reconfigurable simulation interfaces to support the full immersion of humans into the synthetic environment.

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By FY97, the goal is to complete a tool for white-box security evaluation with respect to a threat model. By FY98, the program will release a library of application-embedded network security services; a commercial (B3) certified workstation featuring trued computing base; and prototype CORBA-compliant domain and type enforcement for secure location interoperability. It also will demonstrate integrated security support in prototype extensible operating system; complete design tools for inferring system-level properties in composed systems; demonstrate a primitive survivable immune system for responding to attacks and intrusions; and demonstrate resource allocation mechanisms for an adaptive system of systems. FY99-FY01 goals are to demonstrate a suite of secure, reliable distributed applications over mobile and wireless networks; demonstrate integration of security composition techniques into software engineering tools; demonstrate adaptive architecture for survivable system of systems; and develop techniques for diagnosing multiagent multistaged attack. FY00-01 goals include completing prototype network management implementation for crisis-mode operation; demonstrating techniques for general three-way tradeoffs among fault tolerance, real time, and security; applying assurance and evaluation tools to secure fault-tolerant operating systems and network services; and demonstrating and red-teaming survivable architecture integrating adaptive protocols, immune system technologies, and secure distributed services. The primary technical barrier here is assuring the confidentiality and integrity of data at multiple classification levels in systems accessed by users with different clearances and need-to-know.

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By FY97, the program will demonstrate a bandwidth-adaptive multimedia node for mobile computing, advanced mobile networking algorithms, and protocols and transparent relocation within a mobile environment. By FY98, the goal is to demonstrate wireless internet gateways (WINGS) needed to enable seamless marriage of distributed, dynamic, self-organizing, multihop, wireless networks with emerging multimedia internet; a scaleable architecture that can support wireless access across multiple overlay networks while delivering high levels of end-to-end performance; and a prototype low Earth orbit payload to support a direct-broadcast satellite using an adaptive spread Aloha protocol. The FY99 goal is to demonstrate distributing in a multihop environment and an integrated high data rate untethered node. In FY00, the program will demonstrate high-performance mobile wireless networks. FY00/FY01 efforts will focus on exploiting code division multiple access, wideband CDMA, and application specific integrated circuits to insert technology into Army Land Warrior and Marine Corps systems. Efforts in FY02/FY03 will focus on signal conditioning, adaptive conditioning and adaptive addressing technologies to provide seamless connectivity across multiple systems. Technical barriers include protocols and network control for high-population, high-capacity mobile networks; null steering antenna algorithms; multimedia over low data rate channels; and overcoming current limitations in data rates, range, power consumption size, connectivity and multimedia services in the mobile, wireless environment by providing rates greater than 1 Mb/s, ranges greater than 10 km, power consumption greater than 24 hr, and multihop efficiency greater than 30%. This will enable the warfighter to develop concepts and plans without imposing constraints on thought processes by providing seamless connectivity, automatic information conditioning, location-independent personal and group addressing, and flexible adaptive access control.

By FY97, the program will demonstrate secure guards and firewalls at B3 level of service. Multilevel security requirements will be addressed by the insertion of tactical end-to-end encryption device (TEED) hardware into Task Force XXI. TEEDs to support the tactical internet protocol internetwork should be available for user testing in FY97. Following successful development and testing, TEED will be upgraded to support asynchronous transfer mode cell encryption using Baton technology in FY98. By FY98, cell-agile Fastlane encryption devices will be exploited in joint service testing. The design of waveforms for communications protection will enhance capability to reject three times the number of jamming and unintentional interfering sources to ensure information transmission fidelity by FY01. The program will demonstrate advanced communications waveforms by FY02 which reduce susceptibility to jamming and detection by two orders of magnitude. This will provide the warfighter with a high degree of confidence regarding connectivity throughout all phases of battle, with no attention to different operational levels of security. It will support global logistics information and tracking of warfighter resources in real time. Global connectivity in support of modeling and simulation needs is also supported by this DTO.

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By FY97, the program will demonstrate dynamic planning, monitoring, and adaptation of communication networks, incorporating automated network management of tactical internetworks into the Army's Task Force XXI; and simple network management protocol (SNMP) control of asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) ashore and SNMP control of selected radio room equipment in the Navy JMCOMS program. FY98 goals are to demonstrate standards-based network management of global ATM and internet protocol internetworks integrated into a Joint Task Force environment; and peer-to-peer interoperability between different network management systems, including commercial and allied systems. By FY99, the program will provide SNMP control of the Joint Tactical Switch System in JMCOMS and transition integrated management system prototypes developed for the DISN LES environment to a tri-service global network management facility. By FY00, the goal is to demonstrate SNMP control of ATM and provide SNMP(V)2 or common management information protocol (CMIP) reports to CJTF/NAVFOR/MARFOR in JMCOMS. In FY01, integration into various legacy systems will be complete. Technical barriers associated with this area include interoperability protocols and procedures for functioning in a heterogeneous architecture; developing machine-based algorithms for fault detection/isolation and circuit restoral; detection of and immunity to surreptitious behavior; stability under large, dynamically changing network conditions including mobile networks; and integration of multilevel security mechanisms.

In FY97, the program will insert ATM switching into Army mobile subscriber equipment, develop a field demonstration version of the Air Force Secure Survivable Communications Network, and continue the Navy shipboard communications program to support joint/allied JMSOMS inter-/intra-ship multimedia requirements; during the same period, it will demonstrate direct broadcast satellite technology in joint service exercises, leading to the Global Broadcast Services (GBS). The program will also begin joint experiments with high-capacity trunk radios to support a variety of mobile subscriber services in FY97. As part of the FY97 Task Force XXII advanced warfighter exercise, GBS hardware will be deployed to support DARPA's Battlefield Awareness and Data Dissemination ACTD (DTO A.14). Tactical applications of the terrestrial personal communications system will be demonstrated in FY97 and FY98 by exploiting both commercial code-division multiple access and broadband technology for Army, Air Force, and Marine Corps applications. The program will demonstrate space crosslink technology via two maneuvering air platforms.

In FY98, the program will test a radio access point to extend ATM services to forward tactical units. By FY00, the goal is to demonstrate next-generation mobile internet protocol services connecting tactical internetworks for littoral and expeditionary warfare between Marine Corps, Navy, and Army combat net radio networks in support of DARPA's Warfighter Internet Program (see DTO A.02). In FY01, RAP and airborne platform interfaces will be demonstrated in the DARPA Warfighter Internet Program.

This initiative overcomes technical issues associated with incorporating emerging commercial standards into a battlefield environment. In addition, several technical barriers must be overcome for the tactical user to take advantage of immediate access to information related to his battlefield awareness. The design of protocols able to adapt to rapidly varying conditions of the battlespace must be addressed. This includes error detection and correction technologies that will allow low error-rate performance over high error-rate links (10-3 bit error rate). This project also addresses the ability of disadvantaged links to support multimedia information services by improving the performance of time-sensitive protocols. Metrics include increased operation range (greater than 200 km), volume of information flow (greater than 45 Mb/s), and operation with highly mobile users.

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In FY97, a six-waveform demonstration will be performed as part of the Task Force XXI Advanced Warfighter Exercise. In FY98, the Army will conduct a command and control vehicle demonstration to illustrate Speakeasy application to difficult cosite platforms. Included are legacy waveforms such as single-channel ground and Airborne Radio System/System Improvement Program, ultrahigh frequency satellite communications, demand-assignment multiple access, Enhanced Position Location Reporting System, very high speed integrated circuit, Have Quick I and II, and improved high-frequency radio, as well as high data-rate packet waveforms required by future digitized battlefield architectures and commercial waveforms such as Global Positioning System and cellular radio. The core radio requirements specify 2-2,000-MHz operation. Integrated avionics efforts focus on thermal management and packaging required for airborne applications. This initiative will ameliorate radio interoperability problems providing the warfighter with the capability to interconnect existing, diverse, and incompatible systems. A significant reduction in the logistics tail, which would be required to support multiple radio systems for multiple applications, is achieved. Technical barriers include the development of high-speed digital signal processors (DSPs), multiband antenna, and an industry/DoD joint radio architecture. By FY99, 17 waveforms in the 2-2,000-MHz band, including network protocols and security, will be demonstrated. Technology insertion includes the use of advanced DSPs; a programmable, cryptographic reduced instruction set, processor-based INFOSEC module; and new interference cancellation circuitry. By FY01, the program will demonstrate the ability to reduce the size, weight, power, and cosite interference problems that occur when multiple radios in the same or dissimilar radio bands are integrated within a single system; and demonstrate reduced radio frequency filtering and band switching to reduce front-end losses and allow extended range or reduced transmit power levels.

By FY98, the program will demonstrate 100-125% improvement in environments to search, retrieve, cooperatively query, monitor, and update multiple-mediator systems; and develop reusable libraries of primitive KB components and tools to reduce development time from years to months. FY99 goals are to demonstrate a 50% improvement in data/knowledge and to demonstrate large collections of large-scale information associates, including increasing KB magnitude by developing knowledge acquisition tools. These improvements will be demonstrated for C², logistics, and battlefield awareness, and will assist the warfighter in meeting requirements for information warfare and joint precision strikes. By FY00, the program will demonstrate an increase in the level of integration complexity (greater than 50%), enabling the integration of information sources with different data structures, data schemata, data semantics, and data inconsistencies; demonstrate a ten times productivity improvement by combining the above capabilities with the development of problem-solving methods and techniques. Demonstrations are planned for BADD, ALP, the Joint Force Air Component Command project, the Dynamic Multi-User Information Fusion Program, and the GENOA program for crisis understanding and mitigation. By FY02-03, virtual reality will enable advanced information retrieval and integration tools to achieve substantial increases in the number of data sources which can be integrated.

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Currently, sequential computers have theoretical limits on computational throughput. High-performance computers (including biological, quantum, and cellular) have no theoretical limit. Current limitations on cost, power, size, and weight are overcome through the use of high-performance computers. High-performance computing power is available at the desktop and, potentially, on the battlefield; however, these machines encompass a wide variety of differing architectures, and software tools and methodologies required to harness the full power of these machines have been sorely lacking. By organizing these technology developments into scaleable software libraries, high-performance languages and runtime services, distributed high-performance computing resources can solve large-scale problems through data and task parallelization. Applications such as satellite image data processing, battle damage assessment, multisensor and information fusion, and automated cooperation among multiple intelligent agents are prime candidates for high-performance computers. These machines also produce more efficient and optimized algorithms for robust, adaptive network communications. By parallelizing and optimizing engineering codes and by capturing and setting up system design knowledge bases and automated resynthesis, system design times can be significantly reduced, leading to end-user field modifiable systems.

In FY99, the program will demonstrate an intelligent, optimizing platform independent compiler with a fivefold to tenfold code improvement over 1995 baselines. In FY00, the goal is to predict response-time performance throughout the design and coding phases for real-time and information processing HPC applications to within 98% of actual performance. During FY02-FY03, the program will demonstrate high-performance computer software engineering environments for reducing parallel software development costs by 75% over 1994 baselines. This capability will facilitate future intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance warfighter missions predicted for the battlefield of the twenty-first century.

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By FY97, the program will demonstrate the potential to reduce system engineering efforts by 40% by incorporating object-oriented technology; and demonstrate multiview design capture schema for multidisciplinary requirements. FY98 goals are to demonstrate the potential to automatically incorporate extra-functional requirements, such as fault-tolerance and security, into mission-critical software; demonstrate the ability to statically evolve system implementation by replacing selected components with components of enhanced capabilities; and support formal investigation of safety, security, and fault tolerance aspects of an architecture. The overall goal is to reduce the manpower and elapsed time to perform these activities over FY95 norms by 50% and 80%, respectively. The program will demonstrate a multicriteria design optimization capability and a C⁴I software integration infrastructure. By FY99, the plan is to demonstrate the ability to use applications software architectural specifications to reconfigure executing applications in response to changes in the operating environment, reducing required manpower by at least 90%; and to develop human-centered system design processes and methods. By FY00, the program will demonstrate the ability to perform field-adaptable changes to incorporate new warfighting capabilities or interoperability requirements; and demonstrate the ability to use architecture specifications to encapsulate interface and protocol requirements. The FY01 goal is to demonstrate the potential of human-centered design technology to reduce life-cycle costs of complex systems. During FY02-03, the program will demonstrate the potential of knowledge-based technology to reduce total life-cycle costs of software-intensive embedded weapons software by 90% over the FY95 baseline; and demonstrate the ability to perform architectural transformations, reducing software porting costs by 90-95%. This effort relates to DTO IS.28.

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In FY97, the program will demonstrate the application of machine-learning techniques to robotics software development and control on area mapping tasks; demonstrate learning of tactics for coordinated behavior by multiple mobile robots on a simplified surveillance task; and implement and test learning methods in environments in which other agents are also learning. In FY98-02, the plan is to demonstrate learning of tactics for coordinated behavior by multiple robots on complex surveillance tasks, and distribute to service laboratories advanced tools integrating machine learning methods. This DTO contributes to the JWSTP Information Superiority area by providing tools to create software for controlling mobile surveillance and reconnaissance platforms, and to Precision Force by providing tools for the adaptive testing of guidance and control software in weapon delivery systems. Success in meeting these objectives will be measured via a sequence of experiments with mobile robots which incorporate machine learning algorithms. The metrics to measure success include scalability, or support for multiple levels of behaviors/tasks, adapting to environmental changes, and adapting to internal changes; efficiency in learning and performance; stability (convergence or oscillations to a set of behaviors); communication (amount/frequency required to perform cooperative tasks); and robustness.

By FY97, the program will demonstrate a very high resolution (6 million pixels) group data wall with spoken input and an electronic grease pencil interface; and demonstrate the spectrum of virtual worlds applications (immersive, nonimmersive, and augmented) for mission planning and rehearsal. The FY98 goal is to demonstrate a 15-million pixel data wall supporting the simultaneous interaction of multiple collocated users. By FY00, the program will incorporate gesture interpretation with spoken input as synergistic C⁴I interface. This initiative attempts to overcome the inherent limitations of current command and control systems and offer the warfighter major improvements in the ability to see, understand, and interact, in real time, with critical worldwide information. It is anticipated that situational awareness will improve by 50% and dynamic war planning/replanning activity will occur in 50% of current time lines. This DTO supports DTOs IS.01, IS.02, and IS.03.

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By FY97, the program will demonstrate a capability for 100 GFLOPS/ft³ for militarized high-performance computing. By FY98, the program will demonstrate 10% less memory usage, 10% performance improvement, and a five times improvement in rest time. The goal is to accomplish adaptive load balancing by FY99, and, by FY00, demonstrate a TFLOPS scaleable system with a hard-real-time secure operating system and middleware. Also by FY00, the program will demonstrate a high-performance architecture independent software/system engineering suite for achieving 50% overall efficiency on massively parallel computers.

By FY97, the program will demonstrate a tailorable information architecture to support an integrated, collaborative planning tool set; demonstrate a prototype intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, and logistics planner; demonstrate a prototype target system analysis capability, collaborative support for integrated planning, and use of a comprehensive priority/value-derived decision support structure based on the strategy-to-task paradigm; and utilize map-based static and dynamic visualization for plan development and assessment. By FY98, the program will demonstrate integrated strategy development using objective-to-task-to-activity planning agents, integrated campaign assessment relating objectives to tasks and measures of merit (MOMs), and support for spontaneous virtual planning groups including data sharing, replication, and consistency management. The FY99 goal is to demonstrate continuous integrated planning including agents, situation triggers, and adversary models; dynamic continuous campaign assessment with automatic update of status of plan satisfaction; and seamless, reconfigurable collaborative planning to support multiple tasks. By FY00-01, the program will demonstrate the ability to rapidly generate and evaluate course of action and develop an integrated strategy which establishes tasks and MOMs for force application, force enhancement, force support, and aerospace control.

By FY98, the program will refine RDA, ACR, and TEMO simulation requirements, and create a multisensory, real-time networked simulation of the battlefield that immerses the individual combatant in three-dimensional geographical space using virtual reality technologies.

During FY96-97 (Phase I), ALP will develop and demonstrate data gathering tools to include semiautonomous capture, search, and retrieval of data in disparate defense and commercial logistics sources. Servers for transportation, sustainment, and rapid supply services will be developed, upon which integrated applications to support planning, direct scheduling, and execution will be run. This architecture will provide collaborative visualization and a decision support environment for force deployment. This DTO also will develop automated supply and sustainment source locating and purchasing tools and demonstrate coarse-grained COA. During FY98-99 (Phase II), the ALP will demonstrate an integrated environment to support the planning, execution, and monitoring of a major force deployment, including optimized scheduling and routing with zero staging throughout the move. The collaborative decision environment will be expanded for in-theater units, DLA, and service logistics commands. An automated dynamic critical items list will be developed as an integral part of sustainment planning and execution. ALP will develop and demonstrate the ability to rapidly negotiate between suppliers and buyers, through information exchange, including rapid flexible team and item relationship catalogs. Significant research will develop deviation detection sentinels and predictive analysis tools and demonstrate a medium-grained COA evaluation. During FY00 (Phase III), ALP will develop and demonstrate a complete end-to-end advanced logistics system for the planning, execution, monitoring, and rapid replanning of a major force deployment from CONUS to in-theater final destination, including dependency-driver notification for reactive replanning, a logistics annex for the OPLAN, and a fine-grained COA evaluation.