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SUO Planning Decision Aids

• PDA Thread 2 - Sniper Suppression Prototyping
• Peter Jarvis, John Levine, Austin Tate, Jeff
  Dalton
• AIAI, 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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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 Leaders
  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 Platoons plans means that an
  air strike is now an option.