New information can become available at any time, such as the discovery of a new enemy object in theater, change in weather, etc., either via immediate convoy recognition or through various intelligence information communicated to the convoy by way of intelligence summaries (INTSUM) and visual and ground moving target indications (VMTI and GMTI). Figure 1 depicts a convoy moving north along a primary route, approaching the location where intelligence has reported an enemy sniper is stationed. Initially our research focused on a military C2 domain with a supply convoy moving through an unsecured area. This paper describes the use case, the ontologies used to model the use case, and how they support rapid, enterprise integration of C2 and intelligence information, and our prototype Semantic Environment for Enterprise Reasoning (SEER). Our work is being showcased at the Joint Expeditionary Force Experiment (JEFX) 2008 for its quick integration of data into usable intelligence-fed C2. With these, we were able to integrate new sources of data within hours, instead of weeks or months as with traditional software development methods. We have found that ontologies and rules offer a powerful tool for rapid enterprise integration. To this end, we developed ontologies and rules to address emerging mission needs. Machine-to-machine capabilities are also increasingly necessary to accomplish mission goals. Data from varied sources across the world must be integrated and transformed into knowledge that can be leveraged. C2 systems must be agile, able to integrate new sources of information rapidly for enhanced situational awareness and response to real-time events. Command and Control (C2) systems require the ability to respond to rapidly changing environments and intelligence.
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