MODIFICATION
A -- Applying Information Technology to Command, Control, Communications, Computer and Intelligence (C4I) Systems
- Notice Date
- 11/6/2009
- Notice Type
- Modification/Amendment
- NAICS
- 541712
— Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Biotechnology)
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Air Force, Air Force Materiel Command, AFRL - Rome Research Site, AFRL/Information Directorate 26 Electronic Parkway, Rome, NY, 13441-4514, UNITED STATES
- ZIP Code
- 13441-4514
- Solicitation Number
- Reference-Number-BAA-05-06-IFKA
- Point of Contact
- Lynn G. White, Phone: (315) 330-4996
- E-Mail Address
-
Lynn.White@rl.af.mil
(Lynn.White@rl.af.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- This purpose of this modification is to add an additional topic area as follows. Mixed-Initiative Course of Action (COA) Critics/Advisors: A plan critiquing and advising capability is needed to augment an existing analogical reasoning system for distributed, mixed initiative operational-level planning. Known as the Distributed Episodic Exploratory Planning (DEEP) architecture, this architecture harnesses experience to rapidly recognize and characterize a situation, plan quickly recalling prior successes and/or failures, and then explore what that plan may accomplish. This research prototype system utilizes an extended plan representation schema based on the ARPI Core Plan Representation, a blackboard-based architecture to support multi-agent non-deterministic opportunistic reasoning, case-based reasoning (CBR) to capture experiences (successes and/or failures), critic engines for mixed initiative plan refinement, and constructive simulation for exploration of plausible future states. The DEEP project is further detailed in AFRL Interim Technical Report AFRL-RI-RS-TR-2008-279, "Distributed Episodic Exploratory Planning", by Carozzoni, J., Lawton, J., DeStefano, C., Ford, A., Hudack, J., Lachevet, K. & Staskevich, G. (2008). This plan critiquing and advising capability component will be used to refine rough, higher-order plans, based on the output of a multiple case-based plan retrieval process, into more detailed, cohesive plans by analyzing such aspects as quality, critical dependencies, possible omissions, undesirable effects, resource constraints, etc. Review and assessment of specific aspects of the plan at lower levels of detail is desired over a single assessment of the plan as a whole. Coherent plans and context need to be mapped to a set of critic engines which, in turn, provide their domain expertise back as validation and/or improvements to the plan, making the plan complete and consistent at these lower levels. Issues to be addressed under this amendment include, but are not limited to: activation of specific critics, de-confliction of critic output, collaboration between critics, plan modification by critics; trust, pedigree and, authority of critics to act; assembly and integration of critics, control and oversight of activated critics, and the necessary run-time support environment, including interfacing and integration of the critics to both the underlying DEEP architecture and human operators. The research is envisioned as having three components: (a) Development of individual critics - addressing scenario interaction, scope of application, initial assessment and categories of expertise; (b) Multi-critic framework - addressing critic interaction and communication, critic control and collaboration, and negotiation and division of labor between human and machine critics; and (c) Enhanced performance - addressing metric identification, explanation and information assurance issues. Execution of the critics should be independent of the larger case-based reasoning framework, allowing dynamic assembly of a critic community, distributed implementations and sourcing of plans and plan fragments from multiple case-bases. The recommended date for white papers for this topic is by 4 December 2009. DO NOT send white papers to the Contracting Officer. For this topic area, all white papers must be addressed to ATTN: Dale Richards, Reference BAA-05-06-IFKA, AFRL/RISC, 525 Brooks Road, Rome NY 13441-4505. Respondents are required to provide their Dun & Bradstreet (D&B) Data Universal Numbering System (DUNS) number with their submittal and reference BAA-05-06-IFKA. Electronic submissions to: dale.richards@rl.af.mil will also be accepted. No other changes have been made.
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