Mission profiling

• US 20080015909A1
• Filed: 11/01/2005
• Published: 01/17/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 11/01/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Raytheon Company (Rtx Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Raytheon Company (Rtx Corporation)
• Inventors: Cogliandro, John A., De, Piali, Habboosh, Amir W., Rannenberg, John E., Wang, Joe R.
• Granted Patent: US 7,580,818 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/7
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/067 Enterprise or organisation modelling

Abstract

A method for mission profiling includes generating a human model including human activities and generating a system model including system functions. The method also includes generating an operational node model, including operational activities; and integrating the human model, the system model and the operational model to form an integrated mission model.

Claims

1. A method for mission profiling, comprising:

generating a human model comprising human activities;

generating a system model comprising system functions;

generating an operational node model comprising operational activities; and

integrating the human model, the system model and the operational model to form an integrated mission model.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein integrating comprises:

mapping the human activities with the system functions; and

mapping the human activities and the system functions with the operational activities.

3. The method of claim 2 wherein mapping the human activities with the system functions comprises synchronizing the human activities with the system functions.

4. The method of claim 2 wherein mapping the human activities and the system functions with the operational activities comprises synchronizing the human activities and the system functions with the operational activities.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein integrating comprises integrating the human model, the system model and the operational model into a mathematical representation.

6. The method of claim 3 wherein integrating the human model, the system model and the operational model into the mathematical representation comprises integrating the human model, the system model and the operational model into an executable model.

7. The method of claim 6 wherein the executable model is a Colored Petri Net (CPN) model.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising optimizing the integrated mission model.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising validating the integrated mission model.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

validating a mission;

validating a doctrine;

validating an objective;

modifying the mission based on validating the mission;

modifying the doctrine based on validating the doctrine; and

modifying the objective based on validating the objective.

11. The method of claim 1, further comprising deriving the human activities, the system functions and the operational activities from documentation.

12. The method of claim 1, further comprising deriving the human activities, the system functions and the operational activities from documentation comprises deriving the human activities, the system functions and the operational activities from Department of Defense Architecture Framework product views.

13. The method of claim 1, further comprising deriving the human activities, the system functions and the operational activities from interviews.

14. The method of claim 1, further comprising generating a mission, generating a mission comprising:

selecting mission elements; and

selecting a mapping between the mission elements.

15. The method of claim 14, further comprising fixing the mapping between the mission elements.

16. The method of claim 15, further comprising fixing a portion of the mission elements.

17. The method of claim 16, further comprising fixing the mission elements by iteratively generating additional mission integrated models.

18. The method of claim 1 wherein at least one model from the group consisting of the human model, the system model and the operational node model is replaced in the integrated mission model by an entity the model represents.

19. An apparatus, comprising:

a memory that stores executable instructions for generating and executing an integrated mission model, the integrated mission model comprises;

a human model comprising human activities;

a system model comprising system functions; and

an operational node model comprising operational activities; and

a processor that executes the instructions.

20. The apparatus of claim 19 wherein the human activities are mapped with the system functions and the human activities and the system functions are mapped with the operational activities.

21. The apparatus of claim 20 wherein mapping the human activities with the system functions comprises synchronizing the human activities with the system functions

22. The apparatus of claim 20 wherein mapping the human activities and the system functions with the operational activities comprises synchronizing the human activities and the system functions with the operational activities.

23. The apparatus of claim 19 wherein the integrated mission module comprises a mathematical representation.

24. The apparatus of claim 23 wherein the mathematical representation comprises an executable model.

25. The apparatus of claim 24 wherein the executable model is a Colored Petri Net (CPN) model.

26. An article comprising a machine-readable medium that stores an integrated mission model and executable instructions for generating and executing the integrated mission model, the integrated mission module comprises:

a human model comprising human activities;

a system model comprising system functions; and

an operational node model comprising operational activities.

27. The article of claim 26 wherein the human activities are mapped with the system functions and the human activities and the system functions are mapped with the operational activities.

28. The article of claim 27 wherein mapping the human activities with the system functions comprises synchronizing the human activities with the system functions

29. The article of claim 27 wherein mapping the human activities and the system functions with the operational activities comprises synchronizing the human activities and the system functions with the operational activities.

30. The article of claim 26 wherein the integrated mission module comprises a Colored Petri Net (CPN) model.