Contract: U.S. Air Force (USAF), Rome Lab
Point of Contact: technology@kbsi.com

Overview

Changes in the political nature of terrorism, economic, and technological environments (including the success of the internet in bringing the world closer together) are rapidly affecting the nature of operations for U.S. Homeland defense, military, and NATO. There is a compelling necessity for these organizations to work collaboratively in a coalition environment and robust planning, information sharing, and statusing tools are required to support this collaboration.

KBSI's goal in this project was to develop an Agent Based Toolkit for Integrated Planning and Execution of Coalition Operations (ATIP) that will provide knowledge-based assistance to coalition planning. The ATIP toolkit provided a formalized coalition operations ontology and methodology and a framework for communication and collaboration in coalition environment. The software uses an ontology and rule-based technologies for plan formulation and plan conflict resolution.