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Living Plan

Award Information
Agency: Department of Defense
Branch: Air Force
Contract: FA8750-14-C-0168
Agency Tracking Number: F141-057-1420
Amount: $149,970.00
Phase: Phase I
Program: SBIR
Solicitation Topic Code: AF141-057
Solicitation Number: 2014.1
Timeline
Solicitation Year: 2014
Award Year: 2014
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): 2014-06-30
Award End Date (Contract End Date): 2015-06-26
Small Business Information
2020 Kraft Drive, Suite 1000
Blacksburg, VA 24060-
United States
DUNS: 556397615
HUBZone Owned: Yes
Woman Owned: Yes
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: Yes
Principal Investigator
 Marc Abrams
 PI
 (540) 951-5901
 mabrams@harmonia.com
Business Contact
 Pallabi Saboo
Title: CEO
Phone: (540) 951-5915
Email: psaboo@harmonia.com
Research Institution
N/A
Abstract

ABSTRACT: We propose to design OPTIMUS, Optimized Planning Through Iterative Mission Updates and Synthesis, a Command and Control system to provide the capability of continuous Operation Plan (OPLAN) update for use by the Joint Task Force Air Component Commander and in an Air Operations Center (AOC) at the battle planning and management level to keep the Air Battle Plan living and linked to objectives/effects/commander"s intent of the Joint Operations Plan (OPLAN) environment. We enable transformation from the 24 hour Air Tasking Orders (ATO) planning cycle to use constantly updating plans that provide the ability dynamically to reallocate and retask assets across federated war-fighting domains (horizontal and vertical). When required assets are not available or lack readiness, our system will examine realloation of assets while presenting the ripple effect on other mission threads. Our system will alert planners to changes in conditions via complex event processing on authoritative data sources that warrant replanning, and automatically come up with suggested Courses of Action (COAs) to help save human decision-making time. OPTIMUS is based on substantial work done for the U.S. Navy, an Automated Battle Management Aid (ABMA). BENEFIT: OPTIMUS will demonstrate successful application of automated battle management planning aids from the Navy involving dynamically recommending COAs, execution of plan branches, and assignments of resources to the Air Force Joint Air Tasking Cycle. The work will also facilitate adaptation of plans within the current 24 hour cyclical planning resulting in ATOs. Plus OPTIMUS will portray ripple effects of making dynamic decisions (e.g., what other missions are affected by a reassignment of resources to new tasking).

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