Expert systems and command, control, and communication system acquisition. Master's thesis

Technical Report · Wed Mar 01 04:00:00 EST 1989

OSTI ID:5590473

Minnema, J E

This thesis examines the organizational causes of the Department of Defense's (DoD) inability to acquire working defense systems. One major cause of this is identified as a lack of a sufficient number of trained and experienced acquisition personnel. An examination of the definitions of Decision Support and Expert Systems is made to determine their suitability for application to this problem. The information-system framework of Gorry and Scott Morton is used to structure the acquisition problem. The DoD acquisition problem is found to be a good candidate for the application of expert systems. An expert-system architecture is developed to provide acquisition personnel both technical and management support. Use of a central mainframe, connected to the Defense Data Network, will provide nationwide access, with centralized control of the knowledge base. The architecture allows for the incorporation of existing conventional software under expert software control. In order to reduce development cost and time, the use of existing DoD manuals as the knowledge base, is proposed. A prototype module, utilizing the M.1 expert shell and DoD Manual 4245.7-M and NAVSO P-6071 is developed to prove the feasibility of this approach.

• Research Organization: Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA (USA)
• OSTI ID: 5590473
• Report Number(s): AD-A-209325/0/XAB
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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