Cross-Reality AURORA Common Operating Picture for Multi-Domain Operations

The Army Research Laboratory Research Associateship Program (ARL-RAP) offers a research opportunity focused on Project AURORA (Accelerated User Reasoning for Operations, Research, and Analysis), which seeks to understand how cross-reality (AR, VR, MR) can be used to enhance the common operating picture for future multi-domain battle. The AURORA project is a platform consisting of network (AURORA-NET) and interface (AURORA-XR) modules that allow researchers to conduct controlled experimentation on the ingestion of battlefield data on the network to its visualization, analysis, and actuation by humans and intelligent agents. There is currently limited literature on how best to use immersive technology for decision-making, particularly across different visualization mediums as well as across different threat domains. The ARL-RAP is designed to significantly increase the involvement of creative and highly trained scientists and engineers from academia and industry in scientific and technical areas of interest and relevance to the Army. Scientists and Engineers at the CCDC Army Research Laboratory help shape and execute the Army's program for meeting the challenge of developing technologies that will support Army forces in meeting future operational needs by pursuing scientific research and technological developments in diverse fields.