User Defined Operational Pictures for Tailored Situation Awareness
February 2007
Sandeep Mulgund, The MITRE Corporation
Seth Landsman, The MITRE Corporation
ABSTRACT
This paper describes an effort underway to develop operational concepts and technical
implementations for user defined operational pictures (UDOP). The purpose of the UDOP
capability is to create, visualize, and share decision-focused views of the operational
environment for decision-makers to support accurate situation awareness and timely decisionmaking
in a distributed net-centric C2 environment. Net-centric C2 architectures will make
available a considerable amount of information that can be injected into an operational picture
for situation awareness and decision support; the UDOP capability enables transformation of that
universe of data into a decision-focused narrative of the battlespace. Unlike a traditional common
operational picture (COP), a UDOP allows the user to select what information should be
included in or excluded from the data set defining the operational picture at the source. The core
elements of a UDOP capability are data access mechanisms to build a UDOP from the outputs of
systems of record using net-centric means; visualization and presentation tools that provide
effective situation awareness; business logic for creating added-value information products
derived from raw data inputs, and collaboration tools to enable shared situation awareness. This
paper provides an overview of a proposed UDOP operational concept, as well as a description of
a reference architecture and prototype implementation.
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