APPLYING DAML TO FOREIGN CLEARNACE GUIDE FCG 07 May 03

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APPLYING DAML TO FOREIGN CLEARNACE GUIDE (FCG)
07 May 03

• Mark Gorniak
• AFRL DAML Program Manager
• Information Technology Directorate
• Air Force Research Laboratory
• gorniakm_at_rl.af.mil [phone]

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AFRL Integrated Flight Management / Advanced
Technology Demonstration (IFM/ATD)
AMC Data Environment
As of Feb 03
Technology Investment Schedule
FY Prior 02 03
04 05
WARP Integration - SEP01
IDiON Integration - MAY02
NOTAM Search and Retrieval
Diplomatic Clearance Automation
Intelligent Information Management
Dynamic Planning and Scheduling
Technology Transition
Continuous through Spiral Development of
Deliverable Capabilities
Benefits to the Warfighter
Description

• Reduce unneeded information presented to flyers,
  planners, and flight managers
• Highlight constraining events automatically to
  operators
• Increase overall productivity within the Tanker
  Airlift Control Center (TACC)
• Allow the operator to run numerous courses of
  action quickly and then select the best option
• WARP (Worldwide Aeronautical Route Planner)
  integration led to 14 fewer flying hours and 7
  (202.9M) less fuel in mobility scenario
• Defense Science Board (DSB) Fuel Study - May 2000

• Develop intelligent search, retrieval, and
  storage of mission planning data to optimize
  current, and future C2 capabilities
• Improve AMC flight planning system

Technology

• Comprehensive, efficient algorithm for flight
  planning
• Data search and integration methods with
  automated feedback into planning and scheduling
  system
• Intelligent software agents for mobility asset
  planning
• Constraint-based planning/scheduling

POC Edward DePalma AFRL/IFSF
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The Big Picture Problem Were Addressing

• Air Mobility Command (AMC) Diplomatic Clearance
  Problem
• Loss of 80K in Fuel and One Sortie Daily Due to
  Dip Clearance Violation
• 180K Per Day During Contingencies
• Indirect Effects
• Lost Crew Time
• Delays in Transportation/Supply System
• Disrupted Flight/Cargo Movement Schedules
• and On and On

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AMC Diplomatic Clearance Solution

• Focus is efficient TACC Diplomatic Clearance
  Scheduling by automating
• Lead Time Computation
• Foreign Clearance Guide (FCG) Example
• AIRCRAFT LEAD TIME REQUIREMENT
• 1. Landings in the former East Germany (except
  for the three airports in Berlin) - Five (5)
  working days
• 2. Air Exercises and training events in the
  airspace over the former East Germany - Five (5)
  working days
• Brain Book (paper binder with penciled-in
  tallies) -
• Applications/Annotation
• Approach
• FCG Annotation
• Agent-based Automation

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Current AMC Procedures/Challenges

• Extremely Dynamic Planning Environment
• 300 Missions Per Day, 400-600 Sorties!
• Responsive to Daily Global Changes
• Dip Clearance Process Not Integrated
• Changes to Mission Schedule Not Always Linked to
  Diplomatic Clearance Shop/ FCG
• Improving Information Flow/Storage
• Stovepiped Data Becoming Integrated
• Headed Toward Complete, Constraint-Based Planning
  and Scheduling Environment

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Hazardous Cargo Constraints
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Brain Book Applications/Annotation
Hazardous Cargo Brain Book
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Ontologies Developed to Date
FCG Annotation

• AircraftClearanceRequest-ont
• AircraftType-ont
• AirportCargoException-ont
• Airport-ont
• ClearanceOption-ont
• Contact-ont
• Country-ont
• HazardousCargoException-ont
• Holiday-ont
• Leadtime-ont
• LandingNotification-ont
• Mission-ont
• Not yet coded

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Ontology Driven Information Processing
Ontology drives schema design
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FCG Annotation FCG Content Markup
Process Flow
conforms to
Diplomatic Clearance Solutions for the
Integrated
Flight
Management System BBN DRC
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Lead Time Algorithm
Lead Time Computation

• For each country
• Match the appropriate FCG rule (country,
  overflight/landing, mission type, hazardous
  cargo, blankets, etc.) to get the lead time
  requirements.
• Calculate the suspense date based on the mission
  date, lead time requirements, working days, and
  holidays.
• Return the lead time for landing and overflight

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Leadtime values for the mission
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Map displaying areas requiring dip clearances
Red indicating a problem
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Agent-based Automation
Agent Types
Heavy-weight Computation Agents

• Lead Time
• Work Days
• Exception Handling
• Reroute Suggestions

Light-weight Computation Agents

• Create Dip Clearance Request Form
• Validate Dip with Map red/green
• Check Blanket Clearance Availability
• Classify Hazmat Cargo

Search Agents

• Monitor and Generate Alerts
• Fetch Data

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FCG Annotation
Benefits of FCG and Brain Book Content Markup

• Content becomes agent-consumable
• Inference-able on two levels
• Rule-like information that already exists as part
  of DAML (i.e. subclass relationships)
• Use of RuleML to represent conditional expression
• Automation of certain previously manual tasks
  (i.e. Lead time computations)
• Reduces human error
• Unambiguous interpretation of information is
  same every time

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Lessons Learned

• Human readable text version must be supplemented
  with a significantly different (DAML) version of
  the FCG for machine readability.
• The DAML ontology is bounded by the application
  envisioned but re-useable by future applications.
  DAML allows ontologies to be extended.
• Current ontology mostly limited to key concepts
  associated with extracting lead-times from the
  FCG
• The ontology is used to organize information, in
  an associated knowledge base or database, and
  promises to enable the ability to extend and draw
  inferences on information.
• Note DAML Rules Standard not yet defined
  Query Language In-Process
• Currently, manual mark up required to extract
  FCG instances
• Ultimately, information providers (Embassies or
  State Department) should be equipped with
  tools/templates that will allow the DAML version
  to be created "easily"