Method and system for network-based, distributed, real-time command and control of an enterprise

• US 7,835,931 B2
• Filed: 06/10/2005
• Issued: 11/16/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 10/03/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: META Command Systems Incorporated
• Original Assignee: META Command Systems Incorporated
• Inventors: Bayne, Jay S.
• Primary Examiner(s): Jeanty; Romain
• Assistant Examiner(s): Parker; Brandi P
• Application Number:
  US11/149,965
• Publication Number:
  US 20050256735A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,985 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 705/7.38
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/31394 Field management, low level, instruments and controllers acting in real time
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/31395 Process management, specification, process and production data, middle level
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/31396 Business management, production, document, asset, regulatory management, high level
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/063 Operations research, analysis or management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/0639 Performance analysis of employees; Performance analysis of enterprise or organisation operations

Abstract

Methods and systems for command and control of an enterprise. An enterprise operating system is disclosed including five frameworks: an enterprise bridge framework, an enterprise controller framework, a performance measurement framework, a control processing framework, and an enterprise operating system services framework. A system is disclosed to receive a plurality of messages, filter and sort the messages, generate courses of action based on the messages, validate and resource the courses of action (create plans of record), execute the plans of record, and monitor the performance of executing plans of record.

Claims

1. An enterprise command and control system for regulating a behavior of a plurality of enterprise value production units (VPU), the system comprising:

a model management subsystem, executed by a processor, coupled to a model database and configured to provide real-time operating situation and event information, policy constraints, asset constraints, and current situation models to the model database;

a scenario management subsystem, executed by a processor, coupled to a scenario database and configured to provide policy base updates, asset base status updates, validated scenarios, and current aggregate situation models to the scenario database and;

a policy management subsystem, executed by a processor, coupled to a policy database and configured to provide a policy status, an asset status, a course of action status, a plan of record status, a subordinate'"'"'s policy status, and a superior'"'"'s policy status to the policy database, and to receive policy requests from subordinates and policy postings from superiors, and to provide policy requests to superiors and post policies to subordinates;

an asset management subsystem, executed by a processor, configured to receive asset requests from subordinates and asset allocations from superiors, and to return assets to superiors and allocate assets for subordinates;

a performance management subsystem, executed by a processor, coupled to a performance database and configured to measure performance of the enterprise command and control system and to provide a measure of the performance to the performance database;

a situation assessment subsystem, executed by a processor, configured to receive asset chain tasks and status requests, supply chain tasks and status requests, and a plurality of messages related to environmental conditions, and to generate prioritized lists of potential courses of action based on the received asset chain tasks and status requests, supply chain tasks and status requests, and a plurality of messages and data in the model database and the scenario database;

a behavior generation subsystem, executed by a processor, configured to receive the prioritized courses of action from the situation assessment subsystem, and to generate a set of resourced and prioritized plans of record using data from the policy management subsystem and the asset management subsystem;

an execution management subsystem, executed by a processor, configured to receive the resourced and prioritized plans of record from the behavior generation system, and to generate asset chain tasking commands and supply chain tasking commands using the measure of performance; and

a display configured to receive and display shared data from the situation assessment subsystem, the behavior generation subsystem, and the execution management subsystem.

2. The enterprise command and control system of claim 1 wherein the measure of performance provided by the performance management subsystem includes at least one of capability, potentiality, capacity, latency, productivity, and performance.

3. The enterprise command and control system of claim 1 wherein the situation assessment subsystem provides prioritized lists of potential courses of action with associated resource requirements and policy issues.

4. The enterprise command and control system of claim 1 wherein the situation assessment subsystem further comprises:

a filter configured to receive messages from a plurality of subscriptions, to decode and sort the messages based on real-time operating situation and event information, policy constraints, asset constraints, and current situation models provided by the model management subsystem, and to provide a list of events;

a triage subsystem configured to receive the list of events from the filter, to receive the real-time operating situation and event information, policy constraints, asset constraints, and current situation models from the model management system, to ignore non-critical new situations, and to provide a situation list; and

an analysis subsystem configured to receive the situation list from the triage subsystem, to receive policy base updates, asset base status updates, validated scenarios, and current aggregate situation models from the scenario management system, to create new or modify current aggregate situation models, and provide prioritized lists of potential courses of action with associated resource requirements and policy issues.

5. The enterprise command and control system of claim 1 wherein the behavior generation subsystem further comprises:

a command management subsystem configured to provide plan coordination and authorization;

a policy subsystem configured to develop and maintain operating policies governing the behavior of VPU plans of record and associated risk;

a resource subsystem configured to develop and maintain a status of deployable assets of a VPU; and

a command subsystem configured to receive the plans of record from the resource subsystem, current situation information and resource status from a planning management subsystem, and to authorize one or more resourced and prioritized plans of record to execute.

6. The enterprise command and control system of claim 1 wherein the execution management subsystem further comprises:

an execution subsystem configured to receive a set of resourced and prioritized plans of record, measures of actuality, capability, potentiality, latency, productivity, and performance from the performance measurement subsystem, to deliver asset chain tasking commands, to deliver supply chain tasking commands, and to provide synchronization between VPUs.

7. The enterprise command and control system of claim 1 wherein the display is further configured to receive and display models, scenarios, situations, plans, policies, assets, execution status, and performance data.

8. The enterprise command and control system of claim 1 wherein the model management subsystem maintains a plurality of VPU operating models in the model database.

9. The enterprise command and control system of claim 1 wherein the scenario management subsystem maintains a scenario unfolding in a VPU.

10. The enterprise command and control system of claim 1 wherein the policy management subsystem maintains a policy pertaining to the behavior and governance of a VPU.

11. The enterprise command and control system of claim 1 wherein the asset management subsystem maintains an asset database containing a status of a plurality of resources required to operate and maintain the VPU.

12. The enterprise command and control system of claim 1 wherein the asset management subsystem maintains a historian database containing a plurality of historical records of scenarios encountered by the VPU.

13. The enterprise command and control system of claim 1 further comprising a plurality of user interfaces.

14. A situation assessment system, the system comprising:

a model management system, executed by a processor, configured to provide real-time operating situations and events, policy constraints, asset constraints, and current situation models to a model database;

a scenario management system, executed by a processor, configured to provide policy base updates, asset base status updates, validated scenarios, and current aggregate situation models to a scenario database;

a filter, executed by a processor, configured to receive messages from a plurality of subscriptions, to decode and sort the messages based on real-time operating situation and event information, policy constraints, asset constraints, and current situation models provided by the model management system, and to provide a list of events;

a triage system, executed by a processor, configured to receive the list of events from the filter, to receive the real-time operating situations and events, policy constraints, asset constraints, and current situation models from the model management system, to ignore non-critical new situations, and to provide a situation list; and

an analysis system, executed by a processor, configured to receive the situation list from the triage system, to receive policy base updates, asset base status updates, validated scenarios, and current aggregate situation models from the scenario management system, to create new or modify current aggregate situation models, and to provide prioritized lists of potential courses of action with associated resource requirements and policy issues.

15. A behavior generation system, the system comprising:

a policy manager, executed by a processor, configured to provide a policy status, an asset status, a course of action status, a plan of record status;

an asset manager, executed by a processor, configured to provide a status of assets;

a planning management system, executed by a processor, configured to provide current situation information, and resource status;

a policy system, executed by a processor, configured to receive a policy status, an asset status, a course of action status, a plan of record status from the policy manager, to receive prioritized lists of potential courses of action with associated resource requirements and policy issues, to determine the viability of potential courses of action, and to provide a list of actionable plans;

a resource system, executed by a processor, configured to receive the list of actionable plans from the policy system, to receive the status of assets from the asset manager, to assign assets to actionable plans, to create asset assignment schedules for assets that are not available for actionable plans, and to provide plans of record; and

a command system, executed by a processor, configured to receive the plans of record from the resource system, current situation information, and resource status from the planning management system, and to provide a set of resourced and prioritized plans of record.

16. The behavior generation system of claim 15 further comprising a policy database.

17. The behavior generation system of claim 15 further comprising an asset database.

18. The behavior generation system of claim 15 further comprising a command database.

19. A distributed computing and control system, comprising:

a first server including a processor executing a situation assessment subsystem configured to receive a plurality of messages, a plurality of tasks, and a plurality of requests, the situation assessment subsystem further configured to assess the plurality of messages, tasks, and requests and to generate a list of potential courses of action;

a second server including a processor executing a behavior generation subsystem configured to receive the list of potential courses of action from the situation assessment subsystem, the behavior generation subsystem further configured to validate the potential courses of action, to assign assets to the potential courses of action, and to generate validated and resourced courses of action as prioritized plans of action; and

a third server including a processor executing an execution management subsystem configured to receive the prioritized plans of action from the behavior generation subsystem and to generate a plurality of asset commands and a plurality of supply chain tasking commands, the execution management subsystem further configured to monitor the performance of a plurality of executing commands.

20. A non-transitory computer readable medium accessible by a plurality of servers including a situation assessment server, a behavior management server, and an execution management server the plurality of servers including at least one processor, the plurality of servers performing enterprise command and control, the computer readable medium comprising:

instructions for a first module, executed by the situation assessment server, for monitoring situation information;

instructions for a second module executed by the situation assessment server for assessing situation information;

instructions for a third module, executed by the behavior management server, for determining a potential course of action based on the assessed situation information;

instructions for a fourth module, executed by the behavior management server, for validating the potential course of action;

instructions for a fifth module, executed by the behavior management server, for providing assets to the validated course of action;

instructions for a sixth module, executed by the execution management server, for executing the validated and resourced course of action; and

instructions for a seventh module, executed by the execution management server, for monitoring the performance of the executing course of action.

21. The computer readable medium of claim 20 further comprising a module for displaying data on a visual commons.

22. The computer readable medium of claim 21 further comprising a module for displaying a situation assessment display.

23. The computer readable medium of claim 21 further comprising a module for displaying a behavior generation display.

24. The computer readable medium of claim 21 further comprising a module for displaying a media display.

25. The computer readable medium of claim 21 further comprising a module for displaying a current tactical situation display.

26. The method of claim 21 further comprising a module for displaying a community of interest display.

27. The computer readable medium of claim 20 further comprising a module for maintaining a model database for assessing situations.

28. The computer readable medium of claim 20 further comprising a module for maintaining a scenario database for matching a course of action to a situation.

29. The computer readable medium of claim 20 further comprising a module for maintaining a policy database for validating courses of action.

30. The computer readable medium of claim 20 further comprising a module for maintaining an asset database for monitoring available and used assets.