Knowledge Systems for Coalition Operations 2016

6th to 8th September 2016 at IET Savoy Place, London, UK

Co-located with the 21st International Command and Control Research and Technology Symposium (ICCRTS 2016)

KSCO-2016 Proceedings - Papers, Presentations and Resources

• ICCRTS-2016 and KSCO-2016 Full Programme [Online Format]
• ICCRTS-2016 and KSCO-2016 Papers [IC2I Online Archive]
• KSCO 2016 Papers & Presentations [Directory Index]
• ICCRTS 2016/KSCO 2016 Introductions & Keynote Presentations [Directory Index]

• Introduction: Professor Jitu Patel (Dstl, UK) & Dr. David S. Alberts (IDA, USA) [Presentation]
   
• Welcome Address: Vice Admiral Duncan Potts (Director General Joint Force Development, UK) [Presentation]
   
• Keynote: Contemporary C2 Challenges:
  Lieutenant General Sir David Capewell (Dstl, UK) [Presentation]
   
• Panel: The Complex Enterprise:
  • Moderator: Prof. Austin Tate (University of Edinburgh, UK)
  • Mr Paul Castella (UK Head of Mission International Committee of the Red Cross)
  • Sir Stephen House (UK)
  • Major General Stuart Skeates (Standing Joint Force Commander, UK)
  
   
• Panel: Is our current approach to Command and Control fit for purpose?
  • Moderator: Lieutenant General Sir David Capewell (Dstl, UK)
  • Dr David Alberts (IDA, USA)
  • Brigadier Darrell Amison (DCDC Hd Concepts, UK)
  • Peter Houghton (Dstl, UK)
  • Air Commodore Stephen Reeves (Deputy Director Joint Warfare, UK)
  
   
• Keynote: Cybersecurity and the Complex, Connected Battlefield:
  Mr. Richard A. Hale (Deputy Chief Information Officer for Cybersecurity, U.S. Department of Defense) [Presentation]
   
• Keynote: C2 Theory Overview, Recent Developments and Way Forward:
  Dr. David S. Alberts (IDA, USA) [Presentation]
   
• Panel: C2 Challenges and Application of C2 Theory:
  • Moderator: Anthony Alston (QinetiQ, UK)
  • Christopher Briggs (Dstl, UK)
  • Kevin Chan (ARL, USA)
  • Lorraine Dodd (Cranfield University, UK)
  • Calvin S. Johnson (Deputy, Mission Command Battle Lab, US)
  • Keith Stewart (DRDC, CA)
  
   
• Panel: Military Internet of Things (IoT), Autonomy, and Things to Come
  • Moderators: Dr. Mauro Tortonesi (University of Ferrara, Italy) & Dr. Niranjan Suri (ARL, USA)
  • Dr Michael Gerz (Fraunhofer, Germany)
  • Dr Michael Hieb (George Mason, USA)
  • Dr. James Michaelis (ARL, USA)
  Thomas Remmersmann (Fraunhofer, Germany)
  • Lt Col Adrian Woodley (UK Army HQ)
  
   
• Panel: Symposium Highlights and Way Forward
  • Moderator: Micheline Belanger (DRDC, CA)
  • Elizabeth Bowman, Track Chair: Socio-technical Networks in Complex Connected Battlespace
  • Lorraine Dodd, Track Chair: C2 Concepts, Theory, Policy and Approaches
  • John Haines, Track Chair: Interoperability/Integration and Security
  • Peter Houghton, Track Chair: Battlespace Understanding and Management
  • Niranjan Suri, Track Chair: Towards Internet of Intelligent Things in Highly Connected Battlefield
  • Austin Tate, Track Chair: KSCO
  • Ken Teske, Track Chair: Methodological Development, Experimentation, Analysis, Assessment and Metrics
  • Micheal Wunder, Track Chair: Interoperability/Integration and Security

• Paper 83: MindCollect: An Information Needs Management System for Coalition Situational Awareness, Sensemaking, Decision Making, and Mission Integration
  David Kamien (Mind-Alliance Systems, USA)
  Michael Kelly (Mind-Alliance Systems, USA)
  Tope Omitola (Electronic and Computer Science, University of Southampton, UK)
  Gary Wills (Electronic and Computer Science, University of Southampton, UK)
  [Paper PDF] [Presentation]
• Paper 81: Applying OntoClean for the Evaluation of the MIP Information Model
  Hans-Christian Schmitz (Fraunhofer Institute for Communication, Information Processing and Ergonomics, Germany)
  [Paper PDF] [Presentation]
• Paper 80: Methodological Development, Experimentation, Analysis, Assessment and Metrics
  Sarah Markham (Birkbeck College London, UK) [Not presented at event
  [Paper PDF] [Presentation]

• Paper 82: Resilient C2 in the A2/AD Environment
  Martin Hofmann (Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Laboratories, USA)
  Katherine Guo (Lockheed Martin, USA)
  Kevin Spivey (Lockheed Martin, USA)
  Rachel Hingst (Lockheed Martin, USA)
  [Paper PDF] [Presentation]
• Paper 85: ISR asset visibility and collection management optimization through knowledge models and automated reasoning
  Anne-Claire Boury-Brisset (Defence Research and Development Canada
  Michael A. Kolodny (U.S. Army Research Laboratory, USA)
  Tien Pham (ARL, USA)
  [Paper PDF] [Presentation]
• Paper 84: Toward a Living Web of Plans
  Brian Kettler (Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Laboratories, USA)
  Rachel Hingst (Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Labs, USA)
  Gary Edwards (Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Labs, USA)
  Richard Metzger (Air Force Research Lab, USA)
  [Paper PDF] [Presentation]