Fiscal Year	2023
Division	Research & Sponsored Programs
Department	Naval Research Program
Investigator(s)	Sands, Timothy A.
Sponsor	NPS Naval Research Program (Navy)
Summary	Static battlespace workflows are insufficient to effectively develop Knowledge Strategies for modern warfare. Static workflows introduce unnecessary risk to battlespace operations when operational requirements become volatile - requiring ad-hoc interventions to address irregular, or unexpected, adversarial situational patterns. As adversarial capabilities and complexities increase, there is decreasing time available for identifying, adapting, and responding to emergent threats, or exploiting offensive opportunities. To stay inside the enemy's OODA Loop, the mission planning workforce needs to rapidly respond to novelty in the battlespace with appropriate, highly coordinated actions. This requires a situation-aware adaptive workflow architecture and a dynamic Knowledge Strategy. Battlespaces are dynamic and demand continuously informed, adaptive, and real-time actionable workflows to address situations involving threats and opportunities at the tactical level. Traditional disparate research fields comprising workflow management, situation awareness (SA), context-awareness (CA), and a contextual Knowledge Fabric are supposed to advise the dynamic battlespace, but they are tentative in this respect. This study will focus on the ontological representation for situation perception and comprehension, leveraging a variety of situation-class relationship logic. Optionally, this study will evaluate and exercise Structured Equation Models non-monotonic causal calculus to reason about counterfactuals. The main goal of the study is to explore technical options for development of adaptive situation-aware conceptual architecture using internal context factors (e.g., evolving military strategies, available resources, critical events affecting operations) and external context factors (e.g., doctrines, rules of engagement, environmental conditions crossing allowed thresholds) to support a dynamic, contextual Knowledge Strategy to enable Decision Superiority.
Keywords	AUV, UUV, navigation, dead reckoning, acoustic, waypoint mapping, inertial navigation units, US, international, China, Russia
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