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SUO Planning & Decision Aids

PDA Thread 2 - Sniper Suppression Prototyping

Peter Jarvis, John Levine, Austin Tate, Jeff DaltonAIAI, University of Edinburgh

Outline– Purpose: experimentation to ensure that the

situations and actions in SUO can be represented– Recap the situation within the thread– Early Demonstration (live)

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Thread Overview

• Initially– Platoons in “toe-hold”

positions– Undetected by OPFOR– 1st Platoon

• Squad A covers at 30m from building 34

• Squad B covers inside building 34

• Squad C ready to storm San Roberto

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1st Plt

2nd Plt

OP “M” 3rd Plt 4th Plt

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Advance from Toe-Holds

• On Order– 1st Platoon Charlie Squad blows wall and

advances on the Church• Result

– First two soldiers through breach are killed by sniper fire

– Member of Bravo Squad hit on other side of Building 34 (indicates two snipers)

– Battle drill response of placing suppressing fire upon the snipers’ positions

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Sniper Positions

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Platoon Leaders Query to PDA

• Platoon Leader asks PDA to give COAs for following task.– 1. Suppress Sniper 1– 2. Suppress Sniper 2– 3. Storm Church under suppressed sniper fire

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World Situation

• PDA retrieves the following information from SAS

– {historic_interest Building33} = valuable– {friendly_occupancy Building31} = actual– {friendly_occupancy Building32} = planned– {location_of Sniper1} = Building32– {location_of Sniper2} = Building46– {location_of Team_A_1st_Platoon} = Cover_Positions_Building34– {location_of 2nd_Platoon} = Building31– {status_AFSS 1st_Platoon} = available– {status_TACAir 1st_Platoon} = available

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Demonstration

• Planning Process– Each objective is listed together with methods

appropriate in this situation– Inappropriate methods for this situation are

automatically filtered.• COA Generation

– Generate all COAs appropriate in this situation– * Rank the set according to the Platoon Leader’s

evaluation criteria

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PDA Operation

• Option 1: Guide the Planning Process

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PDA Operation

• Option 2: Produce All Open COAs

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PDA Thread 2 COAs• COA 1

– Suppress Sniper 1 - Suppressing fire from 2nd Platoon– Suppress Sniper 2 - AFSS

• COA 2– Suppress Sniper 1 - Accurate smoke from 1st Platoon– Suppress Sniper 2 - AFSS

• COA 3 – Suppress Sniper 1 - Accurate smoke from 1st Platoon – Suppress Sniper 2 - Tactical Air Strike

• COA 4– Suppress Sniper 1 - Accurate smoke from 1st Platoon– Suppress Sniper 2 - Accurate smoke from 1st Platoon

• COA 5– Suppress Sniper 1 - Suppressing fire from 2nd Platoon

– Suppress Sniper 2 - Tactical Air Strike• COA 6

– Suppress Sniper 1 - Suppressing fire from 2nd Platoon– Suppress Sniper 2 - Accurate smoke from 1st Platoon

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Summary

• Military Benefits– Selecting workable course of action

• e.g. avoiding air strike on building occupied by own forces

• e.g. change in 2nd Platoon’s plans means that an air strike is now an option.