1. Brigade and Below Battlefield Awareness A BORG Integration Project ARL Knowledge Fusion COE Program Joseph Lewthwaite

2. 2 Overview l Demonstration of the B3AS, a BORG attack answer tool, implemented as a web service. l Overview of the BORG architecture l Overview of the B3AS architecture

3. 3 Scenario: Civil War and Peninsular Conflict l Kim Jong-il dies suddenly. l Over next several months: ä Small group of more moderate leaders announce their assumption of control of the central government. n Moderate’s View: Detrimental to survival of the country to continue hardened stance against the West and South. n Moderate’s Intentions: Open a more active dialogue. n Status: Unable to gain complete control or vows of loyalty from all Party members loyal to Kim Jong-il’s legacy, and ominously, from some of the more hard-line elements within the military. ä Hardliners oppose moderates. n See their positions of relative privilege and power being placed in jeopardy. n Supporters: Include the Navy Chief of Staff, who has gained the backing of several senior officers in Pyongyang military headquarters, and two corps commanders, one near the DMZ and one north of Pyongyang.

4. 4 Scenario Attack Questions l Company from 2 nd Infantry are on the edge of a small hamlet they have been tasked to secure. l Who is defending the hamlet? l Are they hostile? l How are they deployed? l What assets do they possess? l What are they doing?

5. 5 B3AS Demonstration l What you will see – Both the operators and warriors point of view. l Web Service implementation l Look for: ä Frame loss ä Image quality ä Video navigation – pan, zoom, rewind, forward ä Enhancements through visualizations

6. 6 B3AS Demo

7. 7 B3AS and the BORG l The BORG program strives to prove that Attack Answer tools can be automated using fusion methodologies and techniques. l The B3AS is an instance of an Attack Answer tool.

8. 8 BORG Architecture

9. 9 BORG R&D Environment at KIMCOE

10. 10 B3AS l Objective - Deliver a real-time fusion stream to answer the warriors’ attack question(s) that is informative, sharp and focused. l What – Heterogeneous distributed database that fuses data continually in real-time using a visual medium as the delivery mechanism. l Why – Provide Army context and focus to the research of the KIMCOE.

11. 11 B3AS Project

12. 12 B3AS Architecture

13. 13 Status and Plans l Built the B3AS Video Feeder, a utility used to easily test real- time video/image processing algorithms against a video stream. l Built the Video Streamer, a web service allowing the warrior to interact with a fusion stream from a browser. l Enhance the Video Streamer with collaboration and annotation capabilities. l Develop mechanisms for insertion of custom processing algorithms. l Develop mechanisms for fusing multiple visual streams.

14. 14 Questions???