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Self Organized Air Tasking
1. Self-Organized Air Tasking:
Examining a Non-Hierarchical
Approach for Joint Air Operations
(114)
John Bordeaux, Ph.D.
September 2004
2. Agenda
• Background
– Problem statement
– Hypothesis
• Promise of a non-hierarchical air campaign
– Air Force operations – Centralization of control
– Hierarchies, markets, and air tasking
• Motivation and Research Method: Agent-based
modeling
• Application of agent-based simulation to air
operations: ABACUS model
– Findings
– Issues and caveat
– Operationalizing the model
• Next Steps
4. Problem Statement
• Air Force operations may be
inefficient, due to their scripted nature.
• A decentralized execution – where
attacking aircraft select targets
dynamically – may lead to a more
efficient use of scarce resources in an
air war.
• The first step: Is such a decentralized
execution feasible?
5. Hypothesis
It is possible to structure a non-
hierarchical approach to air tasking in
the conduct of Joint air operations
6. Circa 1991
U-2
RIVET JOINT
AWACS
J-STARS
ABCCC
CRE
AME CRC
AOC
SQ1
TALCE
WING
SQ3
SQ2
ASOC
CORPS
TOC DIVISION
TOC
TACP
BRIGADE
TOC
TACP
Command
Coordination
Communications BATTALION
AIR REQUEST NET TOC
TACP
8. Initiatives to Provide the
Common Picture
• Global Information Grid (GIG)
– “globally interconnected, end-to-end set of information capabilities, associated
processes and personnel for collecting, processing, storing, disseminating, and
managing information on demand to warfighters, policy makers, and support
personnel”
• DoD C4ISR Architecture Framework
– Common data abstraction (integrated design environments) allow for the
sharing of information throughout the planning and execution phases.
– Defines standards and protocols for data transport
• Defense Information Infrastructure Common Operating Environment
(DII COE)
– “Multi-faceted approach for enhancing software and data reuse and
interoperability”
GIG Systems Reference Model
9. Air Force Operations
• Strategic vs. tactical
– Support to ground troops
or
Douhet/Warden school of strategic warfare
• Move to centralize after Vietnam experience
– Inefficient resource allocation
• Navy use of airpower still somewhat
decentralized, semi-autonomous platforms
• Tension remains regarding centralized control
– As decentralized execution is an “Air Force tenet,” this
research may be viewed by some as advocating
autonomous operations
10. Hierarchies and Markets
• Advances in information and communication technologies
have led to innovations in private sector organizational
structures, due to decentralized decision making
– Represents a change from time when CEO/Ruler had enough
knowledge to make decisions for his enterprise
– Reduced layers of approval.
– Larger span of control for senior management enabled through
decision support technologies
• Flattened (but not dissolved) hierarchies evolve into
market-based organizational structures
– The hierarchy is challenged at each function and level to prove its
contribution to the firm’s competitive edge.
– ‘New’ organizational structure is driven by customer relationships and
the firm’s core competencies in serving a dynamic marketplace.
Hierachy – authority is used to effect resource
allocation
Markets – price system signals resources allocations
needs and opportunities
11. Hierarchies and Air Tasking
• Reducing information asymmetries can lead to
decentralized decision-making (as more nodes
have “full” knowledge of environment)
• In an intelligence-rich environment; it may be
costlier – with regards to time – to require
platforms to get approval for resource
reallocation
– If the transaction cost for markets involves
finding out the prices, the GIG may provide all
the information necessary for decentralized asset
reallocation
12. Motivation
• During campaign, inside the planning cycle
– Air attack assets will become unexpectedly available
– Targets will emerge
• A completely scripted air campaign, as effective
as it is, by definition does not address these
contingencies
• RMA was made up of several elements, the
increase of which should exert pressures on
existing doctrine:
– speed, agility, lethality, and information
Construct a non-hierarchical model for the tasking of air
assets in order to test a value network (agent-based)
approach to the servicing of targets in an air campaign
13. JFACC & Phasing
• The source of Grand Strategy for U.S. air operations
is the Joint Force Air Component Commander
(JFACC)
• JFACC, reflecting Joint Force Commander‟s intent,
establishes goals for each phase of the campaign.
• Air Apportionment: Scheduling of resources and
target classes for priority attack
• Air Allocation: Scheduling of individual platforms
against individual targets
14. Commander‟s Intent: Gain and Maintain
Air Superiority
• Destroy/disrupt enemy aircraft and cruise missiles in flight
• Suppress enemy surface-based air defenses
– Destroy/disrupt fixed SAM launchers
– Destroy/disrupt mobile SAM launchers and AAA guns
– Destroy/disrupt tracking and guidance radars
• Suppress generation of enemy air sorties via attacks on
airfields
• Degrade enemy command and control of air forces and
integrated air defenses
– Destroy command bunkers and other critical nodes
– Destroy/disrupt communications
– Destroy EW/GCI radars
– Destroy mobile command posts
– Destroy airborne command/control and surveillance
platforms
15. Model Challenge:
Test the Decentralized Execution
of a Grand Strategy
“The big issue in decentralization is the emergence of coordinated
behavior in the absence of a coordinator” - Scott E. Page
16. Method: Agent-Based Modeling
• Used primarily for three purposes
– Social Systems – Anthropomorphic
applications for social insight
• “Bottom-up social science” [Epstein and Axtell,
Growing Artificial Societies]
– Computational Economics
– Artificial Life – Decentralization of grand
strategy
• Focus for this work: use agent-based simulation
to test the feasibility of decentralizing the
execution of a grand strategy for air operations
18. Building ABACUS
• Swarm modeling environment
– Objective C
– Allowed for construct of rule-based agents and
environments; and parameterization
• Sugarscape application – build within Swarm
– Used because it combined autonomous, mobile
agents with cellular automata
• Originally, targets were to be represented by static
cells
• ABACUS uses two types of agents: Aircraft
and targets (mobile and fixed)
Agent-Based Air Campaign Using Swarm
20. Findings
• Two tests for feasibility
– Are targets killed in a reasonable amount of
time?
– Does the resulting campaign appear to be a
reasonable approximation of air combat?
• Test three scenarios for „reasonableness‟
– Cut PK
– Cut Fuel
– Prefer SAMS over Command and Control (C2)
nodes
• Default is to prefer C2 nodes
26. Issues
• Why would a non-hierarchical campaign not be
THE answer?
– Strategic effects (Warden) are best achieved
through degradation of key targets in a timely
sequence, to encourage the collapse of interlocked
systems
• Why would the Air Force resist?
– History is not kind to decentralized air tasking
• Where might it work,?
– In a target-rich, resource-constrained environment
with extremely good target intelligence available to
all platforms
• Where might it not work?
– Anywhere else
27. Caveat
“I don't think we've automated a man's
capability to read the situation and say,
„Well it's a very fine target, but it's only the
lead element, so let's go here and further
develop the situation.‟”
- LGEN John M. Riggs, USA
28. Operationalizing the Model
• Agent communication in model is through
landscape
– In practice, they would communicate across
the “digitized battlefield.”
• Inform emerging doctrine regarding
– JFACC communication links
– (intelligent) RPVs
29. Next Steps
• Needs IV&V
• Assign awareness to red agent behavior
– Provide for active defenses.
• Introduce uncertainty, perhaps provide for
partial coverage area for (assumed)
sensors.
• Compare agent-based approach to
centrally-planned against efficiency
metrics; adherence to commander‟s intent
– Which is a more efficient use of resources?
– If perfect information is assumed for both
approaches, why would self-organizing be
preferable?
30. Self-Organized Air Tasking:
Examining a Non-Hierarchical
Approach for Joint Air Operations
John Bordeaux, Ph.D.