Agent-Mediated Interface Between Command Control Communications Computer and Intelligence (C4I) Systems and Simulation

Abstract : The ability to interface C4I systems with simulations represents a powerful approach for analyzing complex military plans, and generating appropriate courses of action. The simulations provide a context of the real world, in which the plan can be exercised, what-if's can be performed, and intelligent courses of action can be generated. To build more intelligence in our ability to generate courses of action, we must be able to decompose plans from C4I systems, so that critical events and actions/consequence relationships can be understood. Through this understanding, we can begin to intelligently monitor how the execution of the plan may be deviating from the original simulated plan. This paper will describe technology development allowing High Level Architecture (HLA) Run Time Infrastructure (RTI)-based simulations to interact with grid-aware software agents, allowing those agents to intelligently decompose planning information from systems such the Global Command and Control System-Maritime, or GCCS-M (HLA-enabled) and monitor critical events associated with those plans within simulations. This will lead to a better understanding of the important cause-effect relationships in plans and consequently a more effective generation of courses of action.