Consensus: A comprehensive solution to the grand challenges of information fusion

The information fusion community faces at least five grand challenges. In this paper we describe how our revolutionary implementation of an automated high level information fusion system addresses these grand challenges. Our innovative system processes real-time heterogeneous information sources, including track data, as well as spoken and written English language, transforming all inputs into a rich canonical semantic form for deep automated reasoning. Users can engage in real-time Question Answering with Virtual Advisers and a Virtual Battlespace using spoken and written English and haptic devices. This solution offers the prospect of comprehensive situation awareness.