Abstract: An autonomous mission selection process for improving performance, the process using an Observe, Orient, Decide, and Act model wherein sensors are used for observing a situation and guiding initial mission planning. Aa machine cognitive re-planner assesses inputs, orients, and replans operations including deciding on a payload and determining a route and autonomously acting to direct the mission selected.

Abstract: An invention was developed to improve the performance and survivability of units in a competitive environment. Cryptic Command, Control, and Planning, and Management increases to apparent randomness of a plan from an opponent's perspective without increasing the randomness that is apparent to friendly parties. Friendly systems each carry a keyed pseudo-random or chaotic number generating process and a known method for mapping the numbers to behavioral modifications. Since the opponent does not know the key, the sequence, or the mapping, the result from his point of view is increased randomness and degraded predictive capability. Since friendly systems know each other's key, sequence, and mapping, they can predict each other's behavior or generate compatible controls or plans. This improves coordination of friendly units while forcing the opponent to revert to reactive responses rather than maintaining predictive responses.