High-level information fusion and mission planning in highly anisotropic threat spaces

This paper presents a command and control (C2) agents approach to supporting tactical decision making by operational commanders. The work addresses two C2 issues: the use of networked information sharing and high-level information fusion to allow for the visualisation of highly anisotropic threat spaces, and associated route planning for a variety of effects based tasks taking into account a commanderpsilas immediate task needs, personal experience, and command preferences. We adopt wave propagation techniques used in seismology and present illustrations from a software suite we have developed that reflects commander preferences in effects routing, facilitates cooperative command planning, and analysis of opponent options.