APTIMA INC — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: N191-017

Description

Multi-mission naval combat requires precise, timely collaboration between forces to achieve the commander’s intent. Course of action analysis is complicated by the range of adversarial capabilities, potential countermeasures, and their impact on friendly mission objectives. Current tools are largely two-dimensional representations with limited capabilities for multi-unit or multi-domain. Further, no battle management aids or mission planning tools exist that support collaborative processes, or provide a unified view into the disparate data stores across domains and missions. To address this challenge, Aptima, Inc., and our partner, Promethean Blue, propose to develop the 5D Intelligent Visualization (5D-IVIS) tool, a web-based, five-dimensional course of action analysis tool supporting battle management and mission planning for AEGIS weapons system commanders. 5D-IVIS integrates traditional three-dimensional geospatial visualizations with bi-directional temporal manipulation and video game-inspired uncertainty visualizations to enable dynamic decision-making. Data will be fused into a common, temporally oriented datastore to enable rapid access and exploration. We believe that 5D-IVIS will improve commander’s decision-making abilities in multi-mission naval warfare by reducing uncertainty about options and eliminating information barriers that inhibit collaboration.