An Analytic Framework for Assessing Artificial Intelligence and Assistive Automation Enabled Command and Control Decision Aids for Mission Effectiveness

Abstract

The U.S. Army has significant interest in operationalizing Artificial Intelligence and Assistive Automation (AI/AA) technologies on the battlefield to help collate, classify, and clarify multiple streams of situational and sensor data to provide a Commander with a clear, accurate operating picture to enable rapid and appropriate decision-making. This paper offers a methodology integrated with combat simulation output data into an analytic assessment framework. This framework helps assess AI/AA enabled Decision Aids for command and control with respect to mission effectiveness. Our methodology is demonstrated via a real-world operational vignette of an AI/AA-augmented Battalion assigned to clearing a sector of the battlefield. Results indicate that the simulated scenario with an AI/AA advantage modeled led to a higher expected mission effectiveness score.