Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!cbnews!cbnews!military From: peterc@aipna.ed.ac.uk (Peter Conkey) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Templar (Expert system plans bombing offensive) Message-ID: <1991Jan22.022236.22539@cbnews.att.com> Date: 22 Jan 91 02:22:36 GMT References: <3875@aipna.ed.ac.uk> Sender: military@cbnews.att.com (William B. Thacker) Organization: Dept. of AI, Edinburgh, UK Lines: 21 Approved: military@att.att.com From: Peter Conkey >From a report in today's (Monday's) Independent newspaper : "Thousands of minute pieces of information are fed into the MacDill [US Centcom HQ in Tampa, Florida] computers: mission reports, weather reports, damage reports, radio frequencies, mission altitudes, tanker refuelling rendezvous, bomb loads, reconnaisance information, electronic jamming operations, fighter escort details for the B-52s and even for fighter bombers. All this information is digested and fed into a computer known as Templar (or Tactical Expert Mission Planner) which revises the original battle plan, based on mission successes, and gives the commanders in the field a new one." Presumably this is actually an expert system. Does anyone have any other unclassifed information about this. Peter Conkey