LKS Planning Tool version 6

Authors:

  • Lars Tyden
  • Hanna Lindell
  • Per Brännström
  • Magnus Dahlberg
  • Ragnar Hammarqvist
  • Peter Klum
  • Patrik Lif
  • Calle Rosenquist

Publish date: 2010-12-27

Report number: FOI-R--3055--SE

Pages: 37

Written in: Swedish

Keywords:

  • LKS
  • GOP
  • COPD
  • Planning Tool.

Abstract

In the transfer project LKS planning tool, we are developing a demonstrator to be used as a: *Planning support for operational staff (J3 INSS Info Ops section), showing how electronic warfare and CNO (Computer Network Operations) would affect planned scenarios. *Support for purchase of new equipment. *Training aid. The technical platform that was developed in the previously executed LKS project is adjusted for new demands and reused in this project. Work is conducted in an iteratively incrementally manner, where demands that show during tests and experiments are handled and included in the next version of the tool, then tested in experiments in which new needs arise. The new demands on LKS have been analyzed during talks and meeting with staff from FOI, FMV and the armed forces. LKS will be used as a resource for planning scenarios and to gather and compile information about the site of the operation. The resulting plan will be tested by war games. While planning, you should be able to follow both the current (GOP) and the possible future management process (COPD). LKS scenarios could possibly be taking place anywhere in the world and in environments with different levels of infrastructure. To meet the new needs, the terrain handling, the use of subscenarios for different planning options and the ability to manage geometry for area mapping are further developed in the planning tool. The synchronization matrix will be handled in a Gantt chart, and other documents needed in the management process will be available during planning. To reduce the time needed to learn to manage the tool, new user interfaces have been developed using the Rapid Prototyping method. To test LKS demonstrator, scenario description and planning process with GOP/COPD there was an all-day experiment with a highly experienced experiment participant, who were knowledgeable in both information operations and the planning process (GOP). Part of the result of the experiment states that both scenario and management process should be adapted towards more focus on information operations and that the scenario could take place later during the process than was the case of the scenario used during the experiment. New demands for LKS tool that have arisen during the experiment will be integrated into the work with the next version of LKS planning tool as a part of the iterative work process.