Lines Of Operation Plan Modeling and Assessment Tracking Services (LOOPMATS) Navy SBIR FY2012.1 Sol No.: Navy SBIR FY2012.1 Topic No.: N121-105 Topic Title: Lines Of Operation Plan Modeling and Assessment Tracking Services (LOOPMATS) Proposal No.: N121-105-0786 Firm: Perceptronics Solutions, Inc. 3527 Beverly Glen Blvd. Sherman Oaks, California 91423 Contact: Marvin Cohen Phone: (703) 577-5678 Web Site: www.percsolutions.net Abstract: This proposal is to develop "Lines Of Operation Plan Modeling and Assessment Tracking Services (LOOPMATS)." LOOPMATS will provide a unique capability for Maritime Operations Center (MOC) planners to collaboratively construct Course of Action (COA) models to describe Lines of Operations (LOOs), objectives, tasks, assumptions, and decision points. The models provide a living plan which integrates key planning assumptions and decisions which must be tracked, validated, and assessed during the execution of the operation. LOOPMATS will bridge a critical gap between assessing situational awareness data and evaluating the impact to the course of action by providing MOC personnel with a model of the operation that captures the dependencies between situation uncertainties described as Commander's Critical Information Requirements (CCIR) and the planned tasks and decision points. Benefits: Current Command and Control systems available to Maritime Headquarters primarily provide situational awareness data of fleet activities and reported threat activity, but offer little support for planning activities and thus offer no support placing the situational awareness data in the context of the current plan. The resulting capability gap often causes MOC personnel to spend their time making sense of the situational awareness data rather than focusing on what the data means for the success of the current plan and discerning whether the plan should be adjusted. LOOPMATS will address the gap by providing (1) a Lines of Operation Modeling Service that facilitates collaborative critical thinking and visualization within the Operational Planning Team of how each Task Group and their assigned objectives will contribute to achievement of the Mission Essential Tasks; (2) a formal means to describe key decision points, CCIR and Measures of Effectiveness (MOE) for assessing plan progress and impacts from situational awareness data during execution; and (3) a Lines of Operation Tracking Service which processes situational awareness data at the MOC in order to assist and alert MOC personnel to potential decision points and plan impacts. Return