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Back Business Intelligence for Expeditionary Advanced Base Operations (EABO) Shaping Flexible C2 Organizational Structure

Fiscal Year 2021
Division Research & Sponsored Programs
Department NPS Naval Research Program
Investigator(s) Zhao, Ying
Sponsor Office of the Chief of Naval Operations (Navy)
Summary Distributed Marine Operations (DMO) or EABO initiatives require integration the USMC EABO organization into the Navy C2 hierarchy, but there is no consensus on the best EABO CONOPS organizational structure. The magnitude of organizational combinations between organizational elements from Joint Services/Agencies (Navy/USMC, Army, Undersea, Air Force, Space, Cyber, MDA, etc.) is huge. Hard-coded C2 point-to-point organizational structures as inflexible and non-extensible. The objective of this is to identify a flexible Command & Control tool with a model that is capable of flexibly representing a variety of different Joint Force organizations. We propose to apply business intelligence(BI) including such as Tableau, Microsoft power BI, data mining tools such as Orange, network analysis tool such as lexical link analysis (LLA) to address the research questions: Is information on "organization" hierarchy with level details is available from authoritative USMC and Navy sources? What are these sources? How to prevent some critical organizations in the Navy and/or USMC, from being forgotten and excluded from the EABO vision? Will the proposed model be manageable to extend beyond the DoD to Intel and Coalition Partners? We planned three tasks. We will build a network of organizations from the existing tactical units of USMC and Navy C2 related to the operations of DMO or EABO. Each node in the network is an organization, containing the data attributes and content describing the organization's unit structures, skills, capability, equipment, geolocations, missions performed before, and lessons learned etc. The link between two nodes represents the similarity and dissimilarity in terms of shared skills, capabilities, distance of locations, and past collaborations/interactions. We will use the unit profiles to show how to match the future EBO and DMO operation concepts and requirements, discover gaps that might show the insights for reorganizing and shaping flexible C2 structures. We will apply the proposed tools to build multidimensional cubes, predictive models, and what if analysis. The deliverables include a report a demonstration, and a paper to publish approved by a sponsor.
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