CHORD - Collaborative Human Autonomy Operational Review

The DAF26BZ01-DV007 CHORD project aims to develop advanced debriefing tools for future Autonomous Collaborative Platforms (ACPs) in military operations. The objective is to effectively fuse decision-making chains from both human operators and multiple AI-enabled ACPs, presenting this information clearly to warfighters. Current debriefing methods are manual and lack AI assistance. This project seeks to enhance existing tools by incorporating functionality for debriefing autonomous ACPs, addressing the challenge of logging and displaying critical information about autonomous system decisions, tactics, techniques, and procedures. A secondary focus is to identify data input requirements from autonomy necessary for effective debriefing, considering both explainable AI (XAI) and more transparent symbolic methods. Proposers for this Direct to Phase II (DP2) topic must demonstrate an existing debriefing tool used in military operations or a recognized U.S. DoD program, possess a secret level facility and personnel clearances, and exhibit expertise in Air Force doctrine, software development, autonomous systems, and AI. The project will lead to a government reference architecture compliant debriefing tool with features for visualizing ACP team decision-making, performance, and environmental interactions. This initiative will significantly improve post-mission analysis efficiency and trustworthiness for both military and commercial autonomous systems.