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ALP and UltraLog

ALP and UltraLog. Overview Briefing May 2002. Dr. Mark Greaves 703-526-6623 mgreaves@darpa.mil DARPA / Joint Logistics Technology Office (JLTO). Logistics Superiority. End-to-End Control of the Logistics Pipeline

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ALP and UltraLog

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  1. ALP and UltraLog Overview Briefing May 2002 Dr. Mark Greaves 703-526-6623 mgreaves@darpa.mil DARPA / Joint Logistics Technology Office (JLTO)

  2. Logistics Superiority • End-to-End Control of the Logistics Pipeline • Fastest ever construction of a level-5 logistics plan (~hour [agents] vs. weeks [humans]) • World’s most advanced agent architecture • Hardened and Survivable Logistics • Robust, Secure, and Scalable logistics agents • Hardened to withstand simultaneous cyber and kinetic attack Advanced Logistics Project(FY96—FY01) UltraLogProgram(FY01—FY04)

  3. 4,000 4,000 3,5 3,5 00 00 Cargo Enroute Cargo Enroute 2001 2001 3 3 ,000 ,000 Requirement Requirement Dual MRCs Dual MRCs (Thousands of Short Tons) (Thousands of Short Tons) 2,5 2,5 00 00 Dry Cargo Sealift Dry Cargo Sealift 2 2 ,000 ,000 Operation Operation 1,5 1,5 00 00 Desert Shield/Storm Retrograde Desert Shield/Storm Retrograde 1 1 ,000 ,000 MRC 1 MRC 1 5 00 5 00 MRC 2 MRC 2 Air War Air War Ground War Ground War 0 0 C+0 C+75 C+120 C+215 C+0 C+75 C+120 C+215 C+45 C+45 8/7/90 8/7/90 3/10/91 3/10/91 C+30 C+30 Days Days Future Logistics Vision We couldn’t ship on time The port’s damaged Ops Log J3 J4 We need bottled water, spare tires... Service & DLA Depots Units Services TRANSCOM DLA Rapid Planning Execution Monitoring Continuous Replanning • All Echelons • Executable detail • Globally optimize • Manage flow • Deploy plan sentinels • Localize problems • Redirected flow • Localized Replanning • Locally optimal fixes Continuous Dynamic Planning, Monitoring and Replanning

  4. An Approach to Integrated Global Logistics Logistics Supportability Operations Planning Plan and Supportability Analysis OPS LOG Combined Ops/Log Plan Operations Requirements Logistics Planning Execution Monitoring& Assessment Force Specific Demand Generation Automated Demand Sourcing Transportation Planning Inventory Management

  5. Automated Log Plan Generation End-to-End Logistics System Execution Monitoring Advanced Logistics Project “Grand Challenges” End-to-End Movement Control • Automate plan development • Level 5, execution detail • Build in under 1 hour • Strong J3/J4 Partnership • Minimize staging • Globally optimize lift • Item level planning Rapid Supply & Sustainment • Continuously monitor during execution • Automatically detect deviations • Selectively correct plan in minutes • Continuous bottom-up demand generation • Sourcing virtual DoD/Com inventories • Time-phased sustainment

  6. Advanced Logistics Project (ALP) Objective: Getting Control of the Logistics Pipeline... • Operating at All Echelons, All Phases of Operations • Continuously Planning, Managing, and Providing Visibility • Linking all Elements into a Living, Distributed, Global Logistics Plan In-Storage In-Process In-Transit In-Theater Technical Approach... Complex Agent Society Agent Community Basic Building Block Agent “Cluster” First Large Scale Distributed Agent-Based Application

  7. Target Capability • Evolvable • Heterogeneous • Adaptable • Scalable • Distributed Organizations • Cognitive Model Realizing a Dynamic, Interoperable System of Systems Coalition/HNS Contemporary Systems New Capability Commercial Contemporary Data Sources

  8. Flight Schedules Travel Agent Manager Need to schedule a business meeting in Boston Rental Cars Travel Options Schedules attendance and makes room and travel arrangements for manager Assistant Hotels Location Information Coordinates Details Weather Personal Itinerary Other Attendees Concept of an Agent An independent person or entity that can autonomously accomplish tasks for another person or other entity

  9. What is a Software Agent? • Agents are software pieces that autonomously accomplish tasks on behalf of another entity • Agents are a style of computer program • They execute as machine code just like all other programs • They are not magic; just because you program in the agent style doesn’t mean you have solved very hard AI problems Typical Properties of Software Agents • Goal Orientedand Taskable • Autonomous • Collaborative • Adaptive • Proactive • Extensible • Mobile

  10. Creating an ALP Agent Domain Specific Agent Generic Agent Business Rules & Processes + = Mission Planning PlugIn Allocator Expander Mission Assignment + = PlugIn Assessor Weather Status PlugIn A/C Availability PlugIn Agent Architecture Air Scheduling Behaviors Air Scheduling Agent

  11. Building Communities Each agent a specialist at part of the organizational process TRANSCOM Air Scheduler Route Planner Mode Selection Port Planner Rail Planner Organization-Level Logistics Business Processes Agents collaborate to develop integrated organizational plans

  12. Building Societies Army AMC Global Logistics Business Process CENTCOM TRANSCOM FSB FORSCOM Div MSC AF AMC The architecture scales to support the global logistics enterprise • Highly automated • Distributed • Continuous • Peace and War • All Echelons Wings Wings

  13. NATIONAL COMMAND AUTHORITY UN HQ US CENTCOM US JFCOM DLAHQ US TRANSCOM JTF-HQ RED CROSS HQ IOC INDUSTRIAL BASE FUTURE UN BDE HQ FORSCOM MARFORCENT NAVCENT ARCENT AFCENT UK INFBN SPARE PARTS ICP FUEL ICP SUBSISTENCE ICP MEDICAL ICP CONSTRUCTION ICP 3ID HQ MPSRON-2 CVBG CTF-5X JFACC AUS INFBN SPARE PARTS CBU FUEL CBU SUBSISTENCE CBU MEDICAL CBU 1 MEF ARG BOXER SUBSISTENCE CSI MEDICAL CSI SPARE PARTS CSI FUEL CSI CAN INFBN SUBSISTENCE DEPOT MEDICAL DEPOT SPARE PARTS DEPOT FUEL DEPOT 11 MEU NZ INFBN ACC HQ USAF WRM 233-TRKCO HVY SUBSISTENCE VENDOR MEDICAL VENDOR SPARE PARTS VENDOR FUEL VENDOR 1 MEB 644-ORDCO HQ USAF/ XOP AEFC ADEN AB ATAQ AB MASIRAH AB KARACHI SUPPLY POINT BLT 3/1 HMM-165 MSSG 11 190-MAINTCO GS HQ USAF/ XOPW ADEN AB SparePartsInvMgr ATAQ AB SparePartsInvMgr MASIRAH AB SparePartsInvMgr 659-MAINTCO DS MTMC MSC-AMMO MSC AMC THEATER MCC ADEN AB FuelInvMgr ATAQ AB FuelInvMgr MASIRAH AB FuelInvMgr 7 Mar (Rein) 3 MAW FWD CSSG-1 24-SPTGP HHC 503-MAINTCO DS 3-BDE-2ID HHC 1-BDE-3ID HHC 2-BDE-3ID HHC 3-AVNBDE HHC DIVARTY-3ID HHB C130 WING CAIRO 263-MAINTCO DS 597-MAINTCO DS ORGANIC AIR THEATER AIR SUPPLY DEPOT ITO MASSAWA PORT 2BW SparePartsInvMgr 94-MAINTCO GS MAG 39 MAG 11 MACG 38 MWSG 37 553-CSB HHD 180-TCBN HHD MCGUIRE WING THEATER GROUND AMMO DEPOT ITO SAVANNAH PORT 2BW FuelInvMgr 126-TRKCO MED FORT BENNING ITO THEATER FORT 6TH AMS BEAUMONT PORT VMFA 323 1 BN 7 MAR HMM 268 DET MTACS 38 MWSS 373 (FW) DET 1 SUP BN 96-TCCO HET Ronald Reagan CV-76 603-DASB 12-FABTRY 602-MAINTCO 324-SCBN TRITAC 296-SPTBN 26-FSB 3-FSB FORT BRAGG ITO SUNNY POINT PORT CHARLESTON WING THEATER SEA VMFA 232 PORT ROYAL CG-73 2 BN 7 MAR HMM 364 DET MACS 1 MWSS 374 (RW) DET 1 MAINT BN 1-3-AVNBN 39-FABTRY 512-QMCO WTRSPLY 406-TCDET TPT 1-9-FABN 1-41-FABN 1-37-FABN 123-SIGBN FORT CARSON ITO KARACHI PORT CHARLESTON AIR SQUADRON LAKE CHAMPLAIN CG-57 VMFA (AW)225 3 BN 7 MAR HMH 462 DET MASS 3 DET 1 TS BN 2-3-AVNBN 418-TKCO POL 11-ENGBN 10-ENGBN 186- WTRPURDET 209-MICO 103-MIBN FORT EUSTIS ITO McCHORD WING RUSSELL DDG-59 VMA 214 3 BN 11 MAR HMLA 367 DET MWCS 38 DET 7 ES BN 1-64-ARBN 24-ODCO 2-7-INFBN 10-TCBN HHC 334-SIGCO ENGBDE HHD FORT LEWIS ITO McCHORD AIR SQUADRON ELLIOT DD-967 MALS 11 1 TK BN MALS 39 DET 3 LAAD BN DET 1 MED BN 89-TKCO CGO 18-QMPLT 3-15-INFBN 4-64-ARBN 18-ENGCO 3-7-CAVSQDN 52FW 28BW 48FW 33FW 9RW 99RW FORT SAM HOUSTON ITO DOVER WING RENTZ FFG-46 VMGR 352 DET 3AAV BN DET 1 DENT BN 202- -WTRPURDET 3-7-INFBN 3-69-ARBN 416-TKCO POL 3-MPCO 126-MEDTM FSURG 28BW SparePartsInvMgr FORT STEWART ITO BRIDGE AOE-10 DOVER AIR SQUADRON VMAQ 4 Co A 1 LAR BN 226-QMCO -SUPPLY 119-TCCO CGO 1-3-ADABN 2-3-INFBN CVW-6 (CAG) 28BW FuelInvMgr FORT HOOD ITO WESTOVER WING CONSOL TANKER DET 1 CE BN 157-QMCO FSVC 396-TCCO PLS 5-20-INFBN VF-256 F14 37BS 494FS 60FS 9RS 23FS CAMP PENDLETON 11RS DJBOUTI PORT WESTOVER AIR SQUADRON 1-23-INFBN 24-CSB HHD 21-MED CSHOSP VFA-258 F18 37BS SUB1 494FS SUB1 60FS SUB1 9RS SUB1 11RS SUB1 TWENTY NINE PALMS 23FS SUB1 COMMERCIAL WING 1-14-CAVSQDN 259-QMCO FSVC 571-MEDDET AMBL VFA-260 F18 37BS SUB2 494FS SUB2 60FS SUB2 9RS SUB2 11RS SUB2 23FS SUB2 KARACHI REFUGEE CAMP COMMERCIAL AIR SQUADRON 343-QMCO SPLY 52-INF-CCO 147-MEDLOGBN VMFA-402 F18 37BS SUB3 494FS SUB3 60FS SUB3 9RS SUB3 11RS SUB3 23FS SUB3 NAWABSHA REFUGEE CAMP 61-ASMEDBN MEDCO 632-MAINTCO VAQ-128 EA6B HYDERABAD CAMP AEF2 110-QMCO POLSPLY 36-MEDEVAC BN-GAMBCO HS-2 H60 SUKKUR REFUGEE CAMP 92-ENGBN CBTHVY VAW-212 E2C MIRPUR KHAS REFUGEE CAMP VRC-30 C2 BELA REFUGEE CAMP 3-DISCOM HHC 20FW 388FW 2BW 23FW 3FW 703-MSB 421FS 96BS 79FS 75FS 19FS 96BS SUB1 421FS SUB1 79FS SUB1 75FS SUB1 19FS SUB1 421FS SUB2 96BS SUB2 79FS SUB2 75FS SUB2 19FS SUB2 421FS SUB3 96BS SUB3 79FS SUB3 75FS SUB3 19FS SUB3 AEF1 49FW 8FS 8FS SUB1 8FS SUB2 8FS SUB3 Non-AEF The ALP Prototype Society A prototype of 300+ organizations, each with one or more agents.

  14. ALP Final Functional Demonstration May 2001 Hypothetical 2005 Force Deployment Plan 5,150 Business Processes 20,000 Major End Items 33,000 People 300+ Organizations Classes I, III, IV, V, VIII, IX ISB HR AO USA IBCT w IAVs 3ID(-) 1,000 track 5,000 wheel 66 artillery 23,500 people USAF 2 AEFs 40 F16 16 F15 USMC MEU MEB 58 tanks 135 AAV/LAV 30 artillery 73 fixed-wing A/C 75 rotary-wing A/C 9,500 people Cyclone area: 10,000 dead 250K refugees Peacemaking Area of Operations Flooding USN Ronald Reagan CVBG Essex ARG Humanitarian Relief C-Day C+20 C+60 C+180 Humanitarian Relief Peace Keeping SSC Prep Deployment Peace Making Nov 4 Aug 15 Sep 4 HR Transition/Redeploy

  15. Slices of the Plan Inventory Management Elements of The Plan 300 orgs, 33,000 people, 20,000 MEIs 4 services, DLA, TRANSCOM HNS, NGOs, Coalition Forces Transportation Fort to In-Theater Dest classes I, III, IV, V, VIII, IX Time-Phased demand/sourcing DS/GS Maint, Material Handling, ISB Transshipment 3-echelon medical care … and much more Log Plan Sourcing Organization Medical Elements of The Demo Execution Monitoring Dynamic Replanning Multiple concurrent operations Live Business Rule Changes TPFDD Subsistence Geographic Elements of The Society 300+ agents, 30 machines Standard NT/Linux machines Web-based displays, Local Network

  16. NATIONAL COMMAND AUTHORITY UN HQ US CENTCOM US JFCOM DLAHQ US TRANSCOM JTF-HQ RED CROSS HQ IOC INDUSTRIAL BASE FUTURE UN BDE HQ FORSCOM MARFORCENT NAVCENT ARCENT AFCENT UK INFBN SPARE PARTS ICP FUEL ICP SUBSISTENCE ICP MEDICAL ICP CONSTRUCTION ICP 3ID HQ MPSRON-2 CVBG CTF-5X JFACC AUS INFBN SPARE PARTS CBU FUEL CBU SUBSISTENCE CBU MEDICAL CBU 1 MEF ARG BOXER SUBSISTENCE CSI MEDICAL CSI SPARE PARTS CSI FUEL CSI CAN INFBN SUBSISTENCE DEPOT MEDICAL DEPOT SPARE PARTS DEPOT FUEL DEPOT 11 MEU NZ INFBN ACC HQ USAF WRM 233-TRKCO HVY SUBSISTENCE VENDOR MEDICAL VENDOR SPARE PARTS VENDOR FUEL VENDOR 1 MEB 644-ORDCO HQ USAF/ XOP AEFC ADEN AB ATAQ AB MASIRAH AB KARACHI SUPPLY POINT BLT 3/1 HMM-165 MSSG 11 190-MAINTCO GS HQ USAF/ XOPW ADEN AB SparePartsInvMgr ATAQ AB SparePartsInvMgr MASIRAH AB SparePartsInvMgr 659-MAINTCO DS MTMC MSC-AMMO MSC AMC THEATER MCC ADEN AB FuelInvMgr ATAQ AB FuelInvMgr MASIRAH AB FuelInvMgr 7 Mar (Rein) 3 MAW FWD CSSG-1 24-SPTGP HHC 503-MAINTCO DS 3-BDE-2ID HHC 1-BDE-3ID HHC 2-BDE-3ID HHC 3-AVNBDE HHC DIVARTY-3ID HHB C130 WING CAIRO 263-MAINTCO DS 597-MAINTCO DS ORGANIC AIR THEATER AIR SUPPLY DEPOT ITO MASSAWA PORT 2BW SparePartsInvMgr 94-MAINTCO GS MAG 39 MAG 11 MACG 38 MWSG 37 553-CSB HHD 180-TCBN HHD MCGUIRE WING THEATER GROUND AMMO DEPOT ITO SAVANNAH PORT 2BW FuelInvMgr 126-TRKCO MED FORT BENNING ITO THEATER FORT 6TH AMS BEAUMONT PORT VMFA 323 1 BN 7 MAR HMM 268 DET MTACS 38 MWSS 373 (FW) DET 1 SUP BN 96-TCCO HET Ronald Reagan CV-76 603-DASB 12-FABTRY 602-MAINTCO 324-SCBN TRITAC 296-SPTBN 26-FSB 3-FSB FORT BRAGG ITO SUNNY POINT PORT CHARLESTON WING THEATER SEA VMFA 232 PORT ROYAL CG-73 2 BN 7 MAR HMM 364 DET MACS 1 MWSS 374 (RW) DET 1 MAINT BN 1-3-AVNBN 39-FABTRY 512-QMCO WTRSPLY 406-TCDET TPT 1-9-FABN 1-41-FABN 1-37-FABN 123-SIGBN FORT CARSON ITO KARACHI PORT CHARLESTON AIR SQUADRON LAKE CHAMPLAIN CG-57 VMFA (AW)225 3 BN 7 MAR HMH 462 DET MASS 3 DET 1 TS BN 2-3-AVNBN 418-TKCO POL 11-ENGBN 10-ENGBN 186- WTRPURDET 209-MICO 103-MIBN FORT EUSTIS ITO McCHORD WING RUSSELL DDG-59 VMA 214 3 BN 11 MAR HMLA 367 DET MWCS 38 DET 7 ES BN 1-64-ARBN 24-ODCO 2-7-INFBN 10-TCBN HHC 334-SIGCO ENGBDE HHD FORT LEWIS ITO McCHORD AIR SQUADRON ELLIOT DD-967 MALS 11 1 TK BN MALS 39 DET 3 LAAD BN DET 1 MED BN 89-TKCO CGO 18-QMPLT 3-15-INFBN 4-64-ARBN 18-ENGCO 3-7-CAVSQDN 52FW 28BW 48FW 33FW 9RW 99RW FORT SAM HOUSTON ITO DOVER WING RENTZ FFG-46 VMGR 352 DET 3AAV BN DET 1 DENT BN 202- -WTRPURDET 3-7-INFBN 3-69-ARBN 416-TKCO POL 3-MPCO 126-MEDTM FSURG 28BW SparePartsInvMgr FORT STEWART ITO BRIDGE AOE-10 DOVER AIR SQUADRON VMAQ 4 Co A 1 LAR BN 226-QMCO -SUPPLY 119-TCCO CGO 1-3-ADABN 2-3-INFBN CVW-6 (CAG) 28BW FuelInvMgr FORT HOOD ITO WESTOVER WING CONSOL TANKER DET 1 CE BN 157-QMCO FSVC 396-TCCO PLS 5-20-INFBN VF-256 F14 37BS 494FS 60FS 9RS 23FS CAMP PENDLETON 11RS DJBOUTI PORT WESTOVER AIR SQUADRON 1-23-INFBN 24-CSB HHD 21-MED CSHOSP VFA-258 F18 37BS SUB1 494FS SUB1 60FS SUB1 9RS SUB1 11RS SUB1 TWENTY NINE PALMS 23FS SUB1 COMMERCIAL WING 1-14-CAVSQDN 259-QMCO FSVC 571-MEDDET AMBL VFA-260 F18 37BS SUB2 494FS SUB2 60FS SUB2 9RS SUB2 11RS SUB2 23FS SUB2 KARACHI REFUGEE CAMP COMMERCIAL AIR SQUADRON 343-QMCO SPLY 52-INF-CCO 147-MEDLOGBN VMFA-402 F18 37BS SUB3 494FS SUB3 60FS SUB3 9RS SUB3 11RS SUB3 23FS SUB3 NAWABSHA REFUGEE CAMP 61-ASMEDBN MEDCO 632-MAINTCO VAQ-128 EA6B HYDERABAD CAMP AEF2 110-QMCO POLSPLY 36-MEDEVAC BN-GAMBCO HS-2 H60 SUKKUR REFUGEE CAMP 92-ENGBN CBTHVY VAW-212 E2C MIRPUR KHAS REFUGEE CAMP VRC-30 C2 BELA REFUGEE CAMP 3-DISCOM HHC 20FW 388FW 2BW 23FW 3FW 703-MSB 421FS 96BS 79FS 75FS 19FS 96BS SUB1 421FS SUB1 79FS SUB1 75FS SUB1 19FS SUB1 421FS SUB2 96BS SUB2 79FS SUB2 75FS SUB2 19FS SUB2 421FS SUB3 96BS SUB3 79FS SUB3 75FS SUB3 19FS SUB3 AEF1 49FW 8FS 8FS SUB1 8FS SUB2 8FS SUB3 Non-AEF The ALP Prototype Society A prototype of 300+ organizations, each with one or more agents.

  17. 2 Course of Action Time Phased Mission Requirements Operational Requirements & Policy 3 • Op Tempo • Mission Activity • Location Requirements (RDD, EAD, etc.) 5 Bottom up details • Time-phased demands • Movement Requirements • Deployment Constraints 1 Data & PlugIns Demand Generation • Supply • Strategic Transportation • Subsistence (Food, Water) • Major End Items Inventory Management Establish Supporting Relationships 4 3-69 ARBN JTAV, TCAIMS II Development of the Log Plan Passed @ t=0 Log Plan Development 3-69 ARBN

  18. Strategic Transportation Request Op Plan Requirments & Policy Support Requirements Support Requirements Report for Duty Support Requirements Strategic Transportation Requirements Support Requirements Maintenance Requirements Establish Support Relationships Maintenance Requirements Example Thread: Maintenance US TRANSCOM 3ID-HQ FORSCOM MTMC 2-BDE- 3ID-HHC 3-DISCOM -HHC 24-SPTGP -HHC MSC 553-CSB -HHD 24-CSB -HHD AMC THEATER MCC 602- MAINTCO 632- MAINTCO 703- MSB 3-FSB 94- MAINTCO- GS 1-41- FABN 10- ENGBN 2-7- INFBN 4-64- ARBN 3-69- ARBN

  19. Logistics Plan ViewDetail Inventory View • Detailed plans for time-phased sustainment • Detailed inventory management synchronized between echelons • Detailed information allows shortfall monitoring, trend detection, and dynamic replanning

  20. Class I Demand Generation • Feeding policy editor • Op tempo time phased demand • Individual rations: Meal, Ready-to-Eat (MRE), Humanitarian Daily Rations (HDR) • Group rations: Unitized Group Rations (Heat & Serve and A options), Unitized B and Unitized T rations • Bottled water • Supplements: UHT milk, pouch bread, cereal • Enhancements: fresh fruit & vegetables from local suppliers

  21. Health/Medical Services: Class VIII Casualty Editor • Demand generation and sourcing of Class VIII • Current assemblages updated yearly • dynamically create assemblage requirements specific to the operation and forces • User editable casualty rates and patient conditions • Doctrine based demand generation

  22. Logistics Plan View • Shows level 5 details of resulting log plan • Supports extensive drill down to individual leg of strategic and theater transportation plans • By organization, equipment/material, & carrier • Tabular and graphical routes & utilization data • Asset utilization views by carrier type • Generate user defined TPFDD view on demand • By organization, equipment/material, & carrier • Flexible data aggregation capabilities

  23. Mapping Component • Provides visual representation of OPlan • Time phased geographic locations & movements • Spatial relationships of combat and support forces • Supports 2525B specifications • Variety of data overlays • User controllable time reference for exploration of the temporal-spatial components

  24. DELTA Requisitions Interface • Automatic sourcing of service generated requisitions • Contract management • Business process management • Contemporary systems interfaces

  25. DELTA Rule Engine • Modify business rules in response to changes in source availability and business objectives

  26. ALP Products Cougaar ALP Prototype Micro Edition Generic Agent Military Specific PlugIns Scheduler (sea, air, overland, rail, ISB Transshipment) Skills based Personnel Management (Army DS/GS Maintenance) Demand Generation (I,III,V,VII,VIII,IX) Sourcing (I,III,V,VII,VIII,IX) Architecture Document PlugIn Developer Guide Sensor Web Robotics Actuators Sensors Generic PlugIns Tools Scheduler Assessor Inventory Management Skills based Personnel Management Demand Generation Sourcing Three Tier UI Framework Scalability Tester Configuration Management Dynamic Configuration Contracts Base Management CSMART Wrappers & Interfaces TCAIMS II, GTN, JTAV SAMMS, POPS, MOMS World Wide Port System ULLS etc. … Generic User Interfaces Training Military User Interfaces Inventory Viewer Map Viewer Organizational Viewer Assessment Viewer Basic Course Advanced Course TPFDD Viewer Medical Demand Views DELTA Viewer Subsistence Viewer

  27. Overall Accomplishments • World’s most advanced agent architecture • Fastest ever construction of a level-5 logistics plan (~hour [agents] vs. weeks [humans]) • A mature distributed information systems technology for realization of the next-generation global logistics enterprise We Have Demonstrated the Power of Agent Technologies for Global Operations and Logistics

  28. Logistics Superiority • End-to-End Control of the Logistics Pipeline • Fastest ever construction of a level-5 logistics plan (~hour [agents] vs. weeks [humans]) • World’s most advanced agent architecture • Hardened and Survivable Logistics • Robust, Secure, and Scalable logistics agents • Hardened to withstand simultaneous cyber and kinetic attack Advanced Logistics Project(FY96—FY01) UltraLogProgram(FY01—FY04)

  29. The Context of UltraLogSurvivable Systems Research Survivable Logistics Information Systems • Core challenges • Environmental Dynamism: Security will fail, machines will fail or be destroyed, bugs will happen, the environment will change at high velocity • Multiple Simultaneous Threats: Information warriors will target our software; kinetic warriors will target our hardware • System Complexity: Coalition operations, deep supply chains, and other modern teaming and trust arrangements create massive interdependencies • Systems-of-systems lack the unified architecture and controls typical of traditional fault-tolerant systems approaches • Security barriers alone will not result in a survivable system • Logistics is the right domain • High Payoff: Today’s logistics systems are stove-piped, vulnerable, wasteful and cannot achieve DoD transformation objectives • Correct Structure: Involves all the above issues of survivability • Previous Work: Leverage the results of the Advanced Logistics Project

  30. Survivable Operations The Advanced Logistics Project got control of the global logistics pipeline for moderately stable environments using commercial grade security (PKI, VPN, etc…) However, the Cougaar technology has not been hardened to be survivable in the chaos of war. Kinetic Attack 1) How do you make distributed agent systems survivable? 2) How can Agent technology enable fundamental changes in the approach to systems survivability? Comms/IS Loss Infrastructure Loss IW Attack

  31. Major Region Contingency 180 Days of Global Operations > 1000 Organization Society Highly Chaotic Environment Up to 45% infrastructure loss Directed Enemy IW Attack Survivable Operations < 20% Capability Loss < 30% Performance Hit Survivable Operations STRETCH GOAL: The world’s most survivable information infrastructure Kinetic Attack Comms/IS Loss Infrastructure Loss IW Attack

  32. The UltraLog Program • A survivable logistics information system • Show continuity of operations while under extreme stress • Build on a sophisticated agent workflow framework • A strategy for technical success • Treat survivability as an emergent property • Develop a distributed agent-based interoperable system of systems, providing: • Security – Protect confidentiality and integrity of data and resources • Robustness – Resist, contain, and recover from damage • Scalability – Stable under rapid changes in size of tasks and resources • Assume that best practices of operating systems and network security frequently fail • Balance security, scalability and robustness in a continuous tradeoff • Two pronged transition approach • Applications to DoD (DLA, GCSS…) • Commercial adoption via open source model

  33. Overall UltraLog Strategy • Use Cougaar as a Survivability Laboratory • Agent-based design offers new survivability techniques for large distributed systems • Inherit logistics domain functionality from the Advanced Logistics Project • Implement Mechanisms for Cougaar Security, Scalability, and Robustness • Assume some attacks will get through. Our success at adapting and recovering will define the survivability of our system • Control UltraLog society behavior by balancing logistics functionality and system survivability • Adapt society task flows to the resources available and the current threat condition • Assert and Support a Survivability Claim • Use empirical and analytic means to assess the validity of our survivability claim • Develop appropriate metrics and test methods • Manage program based on the results of periodic assessments and red team experimentation Cognitive Agent Architecture (Cougaar) Platform

  34. Major Region Contingency 180 Days of Global Operations > 1000 Organization Society Highly Chaotic Environment Up to 45% infrastructure loss Directed Enemy IW Attack Survivable Operations < 20% Capability Loss < 30% Performance Hit UltraLog Survivability Claim UltraLog will act to maximally preserve society function under stress, in accordance with policy • Function is defined by requirements • Measures of Effectiveness, Operational Issues, Measures of Performance, Data Requirements, and the MAU score • UltraLog has both Logistics MOPs and Security MOPs • Stress is defined by the UltraLog program goals and threat environment • Define Security, Scalability, Robustness stresses • Apply stresses singly, per-class, and jointly, in accordance with the experimentation plan • Policy supplies a set of tradeoff constraints • Security policies provide minimum levels of integrity and confidentiality • Functional policies constrain the logistics solution • Act to maximally preserve means the the generation, optimization, and application of UltraLog control strategies • Define sensors, actuators, state estimators • Construct system control laws and strategies

  35. Project Objective UltraLog TechnologyHardening Cougaar ALP With UltraLog Advanced Battlefield Grade Tolerance  Dynamic comms-aware redundancy  Catastrophic fault isolation / recovery  Dynamic adaptation to environment Basic Fault Tolerance  Localized persistence of state  Stable under intermittent comms  Run-time manual reconfiguring Robustness Highly Survivable Peacetime Logistics Scalability  Time-phased locality of information  Efficient simple negotiations  Rich encapsulation of functionality  Optimized task grammar / data model Wartime Logistics Scalability  Streamlined / compressed negotiation  Variable fidelity adaptive processes  Resource pooling / Mode mgmt Scalability Guaranteed Stable State-of-the-Art Security • Stochastic traffic masking • Certificate management & RBAC • Adaptive comms routing & encryption Standard Commercial Grade Security  Signed JARS, applets, config Files  PKI, inter-community VPNs Security Resistant to IW Attack Integrated System Solution for Agent Societies Operating in Intense IW & KW Environment Large-Scale Distributed Agent Architecture for Logistics

  36. UltraLog Architectural ApproachCover Every Weakness with Two Strengths

  37. UltraLog Assessment CycleSupporting the Survivability Claim Universe of Stressors Developers and Integrator Program Management Feedback U Code C Architecture Analysis Results T Test Plans Stressors Tested UltraLog Survivability Claim Stressors Considered Diagnostic Tests (non-functional) Results CONOPS Functional Tests Results MOEs Multi-Attribute Utility Function Scores OIs Utility 100 MOPs MOP Utility Function Data 1 hr 2hr Requirements Development & Test Analysis Claim

  38. Assessing UltraLogIntegration and Testing at the TIC

  39. Initial Assessment SocietySmall 1-AD Society (139 Organizations) Driven by CONOPS Scenario Command 1-AD 3-SUPCOM 21-TSC 5-CORPS-ARTY 5-CORPS-REAR

  40. FLOW 2001 UltraLog Transition Plan Department of Defense Open Source Defense Logistics Agency Future Combat System UltraLog & Cougaar www.cougaar.org Open Source License Commercial transitions Free training classes Global Combat Support System Focused Logistics Wargame

  41. FY00 FY01 FY02 FY03 FY04 UltraLog Program Schedule Developer Team Detailed Design & Implementation NAI, BBN, Boeing, GE, SRA, LMI, IET, MIC, OBJS, PSU, MIC, 21st Century, Zel, IHMC, UMemphis, Honeywell System Builds 1 2 3 1 2 3 1 2 3 1 2 3 Integration Team Full Integration BBN, Lockheed-Martin, TASC Engineering Test System Assessment Assessment Team SRI, LATA, Sandia, LMI CCB Transition Cougaar Releases

  42. UltraLog’s End Products • Revolutionary software for agent system survivability, including: • Explicit dynamic balancing of survivability mechanisms • Defensive posturing and fault tolerance for maximum robustness • Variable fidelity adaptive processes • The survivability argument • Hardened Cougaar • Transitions using DARPA’s Cougaar Open Source base • New Cougaar applications for highly demanding conditions General Architecture and Specific Algorithms For Survivable Agent Systems Cougaar Applications for Chaotic Environments UltraLog technology will demonstrate that agent technology is dependable in the harshest and most chaotic wartime environments

  43. Getting UltraLog www.cougaar.org Developer’s of ANY company, on ANY project, can pick up and apply this technology • Available to your existing contractor base • U*L survivability technology injected as it becomes available • Mature enough to be applied now • Free license

  44. Conclusion • The Advanced Logistics Project… • Developed a complete information technology suite to achieve the vision of Focused Global Logistics • Demonstrated a prototype end-to-end logistics system • Generated a level 5 TPFDD in an hour • Planned and monitored execution of multiple simultaneous operations • Dynamically replanned as problems and changes occurred • Matured the Cougaar open-source technology through pilots, experiments and operational fielding with our program partners • UltraLog will… • Harden the Cougaar technology to be survivable in the most extreme warfare conditions • Use Cougaar as a testbed to develop state-of-the-art security, robustness, and scalability technologies for agent architectures • Demonstrate survivable, tailorable logistics under simultaneous cyber and kinetic attack • Continue Cougaar support and training through ‘04

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