Battle-suitable, electronically provided information

This paper provides a user-based orientation intended to assist in understanding, organizing and designing future, responsive information nets using predictive data management techniques. A fundamental premise is that it is the quality of data as it accurately represents dynamic events and provides action recommendations, not merely the quantity of information or its accuracy and timeliness, that forms the basis of a satisfactory net. The paper argues that predictive, electronically-based decision-assisting systems, using hybrid, fuzzy logic to overcome human limitations resulting from selective perception and risk minimization, may be more valuable to the management of battlefield information (could provide more powerful, quality data, or information) than currently thought. Such systems should be considered not only to support cognitive decision-aiding in future aircraft crew stations but also perhaps to autonomously make and implement the results of such decisions for players at all levels of the battlefield