Combat Identification and Fratricide: A Human Affair

Over the past two years TNO and Dstl developed an Agent Based Combat ID Model to support the research on factors influencing the success and failure of Combat Identification processes. During the International Data farming Workshop (IDFW) 15 in Singapore, we evaluated this model by conducting the first data farming experiments. The model represents Situation Awareness (SA) and the cognitive processes to combine new sensor input with SA in order to make identification decisions. A description of the model and the results of the Singapore experiments can be found in [ref 1]. A more general treatment about an architecture for placing the human at the centre of a constructive simulation, which also contains a more extensive description of this agent based Combat ID model, can be found in the ICCRTS 2008 paper [ref 2] This paper describes the progress we made with the model development since IDFW 15 and the results from the data farming experiments we conducted during IDFW 16 in Monterey. In a few paragraphs an overview will be given of the new features, the objectives, the design of the experiments and the results. We will conclude this paper with lessons learned, conclusions and future developments.