Technology Demonstration Day: Monday, June 28, 2010

8.00 Registration & Coffee

Improving visibility and awareness of dismounted combat units

9:00 - 11:30 Providing Situation Awareness Through Intelligent, Warfighter-centric Information Systems

To provide improved Situation Awareness and ultimately improve the warfighter’s operational success, information systems and decision aids must provide correct, complete, timely, and actionable information to the warfighter in a way that does not result in information overload. There are a variety of techniques that can be used to support these objectives. Information fusion can combine many pieces of information into a single, coherent picture. Semantic-based information management makes it possible for warfighters to get all relevant information in response to their requests. Geospatial and temporal indexing and retrieval techniques for imagery and video data are vital for using those critical sources of data. And human-centered interface design techniques ensure that these tools are easy and efficient to use by the warfighters they are designed for. This session will describe a number of such techniques and demonstrate tools under development that leverage them. Sign up for this unique opportunity to experience the latest cutting-edge solutions available to the C4ISR community. Live demonstrations will provide you with a first look at systems that are being developed to improve situational awareness and increase operational effectiveness.

What will be covered:

  • Intuitive, content-based specification of SA information needs
  • Intelligent, user-centric filtering, selection, and fusion of raw data and large volumes of information, such as visual/video imagery from UAVs or overwhelming data streams from Net-Centric information sources
  • Innovative visualizations and presentation of complex information to aid understanding

How you will benefit:

  • Improve Situation Awareness for the warfighter through human-centric information systems
  • Learn about technologies and tools under development that support these capabilities

Session Leader:

Dr. Peter Weyhrauch
Senior Scientist, Decision Management Systems
Charles River Analytics Inc.

11:30 - 12:00 Lunch

Improve measurement and assessment of situational awareness

12:00 - 2:30 Situation Awareness Assessment Tools for Network Enabled Command and Control Field Evaluations

Advanced Army command and control technologies will enable Soldiers and teams within and across echelons to “see first, understand first, act first, and finish decisively” in a dynamically changing battlefield. The ability of these systems to ensure tactical success is directly linked to the degree to which they support both the development and maintenance of situation awareness. As these nascent C2 technologies are developed and fielded, it is imperative that they be assessed for their ability to support the development of individual, shared, and team situational awareness.

What will be covered:

  • Current methods of measuring and assessing SA
  • The limitations of current methods in terms of their sensitivity, validity, reliability, diagnosticity or utility within complex operational environments
  • Introduction to a multi-faceted approach to SA measurement that leverages strengths and compensates for inherent limitations

How you will benefit:

  • Improve guidance of SA measurement selection by mission events, system characteristics, and measurement needs
  • Learn about new assessment technologies available now
  • Improve the validity of individual, shared, and team SA measures

Session Leader:

Emily Wiese
Senior Human Factors Engineer Team Lead, Performance Assessment Product Manager
Performance Measurement Technologies

Maximize limited ISR assets more effectively

2:30 - 5:00 Advanced Planning, Scheduling, and Resource Assignment for Improved UAV Utilization

As the number of UAVs grows, as different types and models proliferate, and as the number of ISR tasks required by those UAVs also grows at least as fast, the problem of assigning which UAVs to which ISR tasks at which times becomes increasingly complex, labor intensive, and less likely to produce an efficient solution, wasting precious resources. This session will address advanced optimization techniques and software to effectively gather the most critical ISR with limited UAV resources

What will be covered:

  • Limitations of current methods and software
  • Advanced optimization methods and heuristics
  • An intelligent resource assignment and scheduling architecture

How you will benefit:

  • Improve ISR task throughput for the warfighter given limited UAV ISR resources
  • Improve reaction time on ISR requests and situation changes
  • Learn advanced scheduling and resource assignment optimization techniques

Session Leader:

Alex Davis
Knowledge Engineer
Stottler Henke Associates, Inc.

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