Intelligent Mission Adaptive Controller (IMAC)

The Intelligent Mission Adaptive Controller research program is investigating distributed artificial intelligent and adaptive neural system technologies for application in active electronic-countermeasure resource management. The threat environment for tactical and strategic aircraft requires the system to handle numerous fast-reacting, sometimes agile systems which vary in function from acquisition to weapons guidance. IMAC is an attempt to capture and demonstrate the important concepts of an ECM resource manager. It deals with the tradeoffs between ECM effectiveness, system costs, and near- and far-term survivability. Preliminary results show that a spreadsheet format for acquiring threat/threat-response information is superior to decision-tree and fuzzy-cognitive-map formats. Capturing complex correlations is found to be the key problem for which a good knowledge-representation scheme is essential