Applying Battle Management Language (BML) to a Command and Control Application: Lessons Learned

摘要

The focus of this work is to explore the implications of a set of tools that implement the BML paradigm for representation of Commander's Intent. The specific tools covered in this paper explore generation of BML tasking and representation of the battle space in time. A real world scenario was used situated in Kabul, Afganistan using German National Forces. A graphical user interface for the generation of C-BML sentences, called the Command and Control Lexical Grammar (C2LG) Graphical User Interface (GUI), is described as well as the integration of BML processing in a deployed C2 Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS) system called SitaWare. The C2 system implements simple entity behaviors, which are utilized as primitives, to implement the higher-level Command Intent Constructs represented in the C2LG. Additionally, the paper will present the lessons learned from this work that are relevant to the Coalition Battle Management Language (C-BML) standardization as well as future research efforts towards a more functional BML.