Coordination Decision Support Assistants (COORDINATORs)

Program Manager: Dr. Charles Morefield

Architecture:

The diagram below shows the abstract functional architecture for a single Coordinator. The change evaluation module is responsible for monitoring the external environment and determining when changes requires deeper analysis further processing. The task analysis module is the Coordinator's local analysis expert - a component that reasons about the tasks assigned to the unit and how its local tasks interact with those of other units. The coordination module encapsulates a Coordinator's communication and interaction expertise - enabling it to interact with the Coordinators of other units to exchange information and evaluate response options and, where appropriate and required by circumstances, to make decisions for a person who is unable to do so. For instance, in the midst of a tank battle, this module might decide to authorize a reconnaissance task or a change in mission timings, freeing the commander to focus upon the critical decisions that must be made by a person. The organizational control module is what makes sure the Coordinator follows military decision-making policies and procedures. It modulates the decisions being made by the coordination autonomy module and the communications conducted by the coordination module. The meta-cognition module decides when to allocate processing time to the other modules, how much to allocate, and in what order so that the Coordinator as a whole can be used online / generate responses in real-time.

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