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Minefield Planning Evaluation and Gaming Suite

Minefield Planning Evaluation and Gaming Suite

US Army LDAC faced the challenge of managing a complex, evolving IT environment critical to Army logistics, and Knexus delivered integrated, secure, and efficient IT support that enhanced system reliability and agility while ensuring timely access to essential logistics data.

Minefield Planning Evaluation and Gaming Suite
PROBLEM

Traditionally maritime sensor nodes are deployed haphazardly, with manual planning tools that are error prone and slow.

LDAC must provide the Army community with vital logistics data necessary for the planning, conducting and sustainment of warfighting capability worldwide.

Knexus
Solution

Develop a planning tool for sensor deployment using machine learning.

  • Build tool to convert 2010 data into the 2020 Census format and produce a test dataset that can be used for rapid experimentation.
  • Built and managed a Jenkins system that integrates with all Disclosure Avoidance Census code to ensure smoother production and code iteration.
  • Leveraged AWS Cloud Infrastructure to create versioned testing tools that allowed for reproducibility of tests on any current or historical version of the DAS system.
  • Brought scientific research code to production ready standards for improved performance, legibility, and flexibility.

Develop Minefield Planning Evaluation and Gaming Suite (MPEGS) to continuously update performance models and tactical knowledge to better deploy sensors in dynamic environments such as the seabed.

Develop MPEGS to utilize machine learning to best determine where sensors should be deployed using ship information, global information, and sensor characteristics.

Customer Outcome

Customer Outcome

Minefield Planning Evaluation and Gaming Suite

The Navy can use fewer sensors due to optimized deployment from MPEGS, decreasing the cost and time dedicated to deployment.

MPEGS allows the Navy to increase operator efficiency without an increase in manpower, due to a decrease in deployment strains from utilizing machine learning.

MPEGS allows sensor fields to be deployed more effectively providing increased situational awareness on mission areas such as ship traffic and the seabed environment.

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