Agile Commander 

• Customer: 

U.S. Army Communications & Electronics Command
 
• Program Goal: 

Develop a military operations planning aid designed to:
• Facilitate the planners' conceptual/creative process by conforming more closely to the way in which planners work
• Enable a more effective interaction between human and computer that takes better advantage of the strengths of each participant
• Require the user to specify administrative and tactical tasks only at a level of detail sufficient to enable the computer to "fill in the details
• Allow the planner to focus on the critical but less tangible aspects of planning such as the purpose of tactical maneuvers, while leaving to the computer the more technical or doctrinal aspects of calculating formations and resource usages (i.e., the "art" of war vs. the "science")


• Key Technologies:
• Knowledge representation
• Natural language processing
• Rule-based constraint programming

 
• Key Products:
• Ontologies for planning and execution of Army operations
• Systems engineering support
• Technology transition from DARPA and other programs