Background The vision of future military technology and operations is both ambitious and achievable. However, this vision makes demands for information-processing, causal reasoning, and decision-making that can only be realized with substantial and sophisticated computer assistance. Part of the challenge is that the result can not be an automated warfighting machine: instead, it has to be a significant augmentation of human cognition. That is, military personnel must remain in control and fully in the loop. In short, despite its scope and complexity, military technology must remain understandable, maintainable, and usable.

Opportunity Aetion is pleased to be working with the Department of Defense. We are uniquely able to advance important, leading-edge research toward potent, solid, fieldable technology. This research addresses real needs for human-friendly computer assistance in:

Fusing and interpreting the myriad sensor platform data streams to transform them into actionable, coherent, queryable summaries;

Designing, configuring, monitoring and maintaining the complex systems that are required for overwhelming superiority in modern warfare;

Discovering and highlighting the best course of action in the current battlesphere;

Dramatically reducing organizational reaction times, enabling the enormous joint force to become a coherent entity able to quickly anticipate and perceive the situation, spot and explain the important anomalies, and rapidly devise and execute a coordinated response that accords with mission objectives.