13 ICCRTS: C2 for Complex Endeavors “Holonic scheduling concepts for C2 organizational design for MHQ with MOC” Organizational Issues

The purpose of this paper is to present a C2 holonic reference architecture (HRA) that is applicable to Navy maritime headquarters (MHQ) with maritime operations center (MOC) for assessing, planning and executing multiple missions and tasks across a range of military operations. The control architecture consists of three levels: strategic level control (SLC), operational level control (OLC) and tactical level control (TLC). In addition to coordination within each level, two specific coordination layers are identified at the SLC-OLC and the OLC-TLC interfaces. The SLC-OLC interface layer resolves coordination issues associated with selecting and managing multiple missions (simultaneous or sequential), while the OLC-TLC interface layer is used to resolve coordination and synchronization issues associated with asset allocation and task scheduling for each mission. The proposed architecture conforms with the concepts of centralized assessment and guidance, distributed and collaborative planning, and decentralized execution in that it employs centralized decision making at the strategic level, collaborative planning at the operational level, and negotiation mechanisms at the tactical level. We employ Markov decision process (MDP) approach to decide on missions to be executed and their sequences at the SLC-OLC layer (coordination of future plans), while group technology and a nested genetic algorithm-based multiobjective optimization techniques for asset allocation and task scheduling at the OLCTLC layer (coordination of future operations and current operations).