AI on the battlefield: an experimental exploration

  • Authors:
  • Robert Rasch;Alexander Kott;Kenneth D. Forbus

  • Affiliations:
  • Battle Command Battle Lab, Ft. Leavenworth, KS;BBN Technologies, Pittsburgh, PA;Northwestern University, CS Department, Evanston, IL

  • Venue:
  • IAAI'02 Proceedings of the 14th conference on Innovative applications of artificial intelligence - Volume 1
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

The US Army Battle Command Battle Lab conducted an experiment with the ICCES system -- an integrated decision aid for performing several critical steps of a US Army Brigade Military Decision Making Process: from capturing a high-level Course of Action to producing a detailed analysis and plan of tasks. The system integrated several available technologies based largely on AI techniques, ranging from qualitative spatial interpretation of course-of-action diagrams to interleaved adversarial planning and scheduling. The experiment dispelled concerns about potential negative impacts of such tools on the creative aspects of the art of war, showed a potential for dramatic time savings in the MDMP process, and confirmed the maturity and suitability of the technologies for near-future deployment.