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HIMAP: A Hierarchical Integrated Battle Management and Planning Aid Framework

Award Information
Agency: Department of Defense
Branch: Missile Defense Agency
Contract: HQ0006-09-C-7013
Agency Tracking Number: B073-045-0463
Amount: $850,000.00
Phase: Phase II
Program: SBIR
Solicitation Topic Code: MDA07-045
Solicitation Number: 2007.3
Timeline
Solicitation Year: 2007
Award Year: 2009
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): 2009-07-22
Award End Date (Contract End Date): 2011-07-22
Small Business Information
15400 Calhoun Drive Suite 400
Rockville, MD 20855
United States
DUNS: 161911532
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: Yes
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Principal Investigator
 Renato Levy
 Chief Scientist
 (301) 294-5241
 rlevy@i-a-i.com
Business Contact
 Mark James
Title: Director, Contracts and P
Phone: (301) 294-5221
Email: mjames@i-a-i.com
Research Institution
N/A
Abstract

Nowadays missile threats, specifically coordinated attacks involving multiple missiles, have become increasingly challenging. It is hard to fast and effectively allocate the rich and varied U.S. defense capabilities to negate the aforementioned missile threats. There is a need for an integrated system for battle managers, fire control and operators to effectively manage the U.S. missile defense capabilities, to determine the best response procedure(s) in a timely manner, and to understand the threat, the allocation of corresponding interceptors and the underlying rationale. Our solution is a hierarchical integrated battle management and planning aids framework, HIMAP, for effective situational awareness in stressful, time critical, and collaborative environments. In Phase II, we will design and develop effective knowledge representation including highly expressive extended hierarchical task networks to incorporate Missile Defense related factors, develop the framework demonstrated in Phase I into a prototypical yet fully functional software system with enhanced capabilities, investigate and adopt human effectiveness consideration in developing response processes to reduce humansf cognitive loads, and finally attempt to componentize certain HIMAP capabilities as "plug-ins" or "add-ons" into existing MDA programs and also seek the integration and transition into other DOD and commercial applications.

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