FROM DATA TO DECISIONS


picture 15 to 20 minutes before it nor- mally would have, and there’s also the possibility that it never would’ve shown up there,” said Dan O’Neill, a CERDEC Computer Scientist who helped develop Warfighter Associate under the Tacti- cal Human Integration of Networked


REAL-TIME PROTECTION


Combining information provided by dismounted Soldiers with feeds from sensor and radar systems, such as Tactical Unattended Ground Sensors and Cerberus towers (pictured), Soldiers were able to monitor the enemy’s progress in real time and block opponents from certain areas of vulnerability, during last summer’s D2D capabilities demonstration.


Knowledge (THINK) Army Technology Objective. “It might’ve been missed in all of the activity going on. So we pick it up automatically, it is placed in the COP more quickly, and prevents guys from stumbling in there and maybe getting blown up.”


The artificial intelligence, and the doctri- nal and tactical knowledge base that drive Warfighter Associate, can then de-clutter the CPOF display, highlight important information, provide alerts and sug- gestions, and present information to help the user determine and execute the right course of action. This is based on Warfighter Associate’s ability to observe operator actions along with the state of the battlespace to infer user goals and needs, leading to more informed decisions.


The 2011 D2D evaluation helps lay the groundwork for a broader capabilities demonstration required by ASAALT in 2013. Future demos probably will include a larger number of emerging technologies.


The D2D challenge is a holistic initia- tive that cuts across technology programs and policy. We are trying to verify and validate that the technologies we’re working on have a positive impact to the materiel solutions that are put in our Sol- diers’ hands.


MAJ JONATHAN M. SWAN is Chief, Electrical Power and System Integration for the Command and Control Directorate in CERDEC. He holds a B.S. in mechanical engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Insti- tute and State University. He is a Signal Officer serving in the Acquisition Func- tional Area.


JIM HENNIG is Acting Associate Direc- tor for Systems Engineering for RDECOM. He has more than 20 years’ experience in distributed software system development and integration in the military command and control domain. Hennig has a B.S. in mechanical engineering from the University of Toledo, an M.S. in software engineering from Monmouth College (NJ), and is a Ph.D. candidate in systems engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology.


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