At a recent DIA briefing to industry, intelligence community representatives reiterated the urgent need for improving the TPED process to meet the operational need to obtain persistent intelligence about on the battlefield. TPED is the process of sensor tasking, sensor processing, sensor exploitation and report dissemination. The requirement to improve the ISR TPED process has been articulated by both military and civilian intelligence agencies for many years. dNovus and the Georgia Tech Research Institute have analyzed the need for advanced technology to improve the TPED process and make it truly interactive and dynamic. We propose to develop an onboard knowledge-based aid for retasking and exploitation support (KARES) that will use intelligent agents to acquire information which knowledge management functions (case-base reasoning, model-based reasoning, rule-based reasoning) can use to develop retasking requirements for autonomous ISR platforms and to provide exploitation support information to image and signals analysts. Given the expertise of dNovus in research, development and operations of ISR systems and the expertise of the Georgia Tech Research Institute with regard to intelligent agents and knowledge management technologies, we believe that this is the right team to develop the onboard KARES system.
