Jeff Waters

Describing and reusing warfighter processes and products: an agile training framework

This position paper describes a framework, i.e. a set of design and architecture recommendations, for achieving agile training. The approach for the design is to be process and data driven, focused on reusability, and borrowing basic principles derived from web-based architectures, semantic processing, user-centered design, composability, complexity management, machine-understandability, scalability, gaming and open linked data. The fundamental features of the framework are open, easily understood, easily implemented, and tool-agnostic. With such a framework defined, the training community could collaborate to build out the more extensive cloud content, extend the capability and ensure that the benefits of agile training are achieved, namely more focused and faster training on shared processes anytime, anywhere at reduced cost and without a large support staff.

Toward an integrated system for command and control net-centric web services and sustainment: Application to Homeland Security

This paper describes the architecture and requirements of an integrated system that is needed to support the command-and-control requirements of the Department of Homeland Security during crisis prevention, disaster relief, and other critical operations. The architecture is based on emerging science and technology that has been under development in information management. Lessons learned in the implementation of decision-support systems for Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear defense, standards, spiral-systems integration and implementation, and web-service-centric computing, contribute to the architectures design. The theoretical underpinnings of such a system are represented using a formalistic approach called “paradigm reuse.”

Human-Agent Collaborative Decision-Making Framework for Naval Systems

This work provides an overview of a future human-agent collaborative decision-making framework to be developed for naval systems using an augmented reality platform. We present the basic concept behind the framework, key features of the application, and some details about a future proof of concept prototype that will demonstrate and evaluate the concept against a baseline design.

The Advanced Exploitation of Mixed Reality (AEMR) Community of Interest

The AEMR community of interest was developed to foster collaboration and innovation in the area of virtual reality and augmented reality. The community has over 250 representatives from entities from government, industry and academia both locally and internationally.

A Dynamic Agile Process Model for situational awareness

This position paper describes how a proposed Dynamic Agile Process Model (DAPM) can be a useful representation of situational awareness. The traditional definitions of situational awareness are highly conceptual and text-based, intended for human consumption, so a simpler, more specific machine-understandable definition is needed for computer processing. At its simplest, the authors suggest that situational awareness can be considered the intersection of processes. If the processes can be represented effectively and efficiently in a computer representation, then so can situational awareness. The Dynamic Agile Process Model (DAPM) has certain characteristics, including both static and dynamic aspects, as well as fractal characteristics such as self-similarity, complexity built from simplicity, and optimized information flow, which seem to match the similar characteristics of situational awareness. Using this process model, situational awareness can be represented in a manner amenable to machine processing for applications such as planning, training, command and control, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, and after-action analysis. The authors are beginning to explore enabling situational awareness in smart avatars using this model for these applications in the SPAWAR Systems Center BEMR lab: Battlespace Exploitation of Mixed Reality. For more information or to participate or join the Advanced Exploitation of Mixed Reality (AEMR) Community of Interest, please send an email to BEMR@spawar.navy.mil.