AAF

AAF

Autonomy Adjustment Function for military planning
Prototype · Illustrative data · Not a planning system of record
Runs one planning session through a seven-step planning process — the Army's MDMP or the Joint Planning Process. The Autonomy Adjustment Function reads the live plan — the real clock, the identified tasks, the stated intelligence gaps — and places AI autonomy for each stage on a five-level scale with a hard Level III ceiling. Every stage transition, AI assist, and human autonomy call is recorded.

Which plan are we working?

A planning session is one plan carried through the seven steps of its planning methodology (MDMP or JPP). It holds the mission, the facts and assumptions, the candidate COAs, the wargame results and the approved COA — and it persists, so the Autonomy Adjustment Function is reading a real plan's condition, not a slider.

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How the tool works (and its limits)

Three components over one doctrine base. The Autonomy Adjustment Function is deterministic and model-free — it computes an autonomy level for each stage from the session's C/T/U and seven candidate formulations, clipped to the Level III ceiling. The planning assistant retrieves the governing doctrine and drafts a stage's products, but only within the governed level — and never at a human-anchored stage. The wargame assistant generates action–reaction–counteraction turns for COA Analysis.

Deterministic where it matters. The autonomy levels and the structured drafts come from inspectable rules, not a model call, so the same session state always produces the same allocation and the same draft. The model streams the explanation.

Architecture. A FastAPI backend with the reasoning model behind one swappable interface (Claude direct or via Bedrock in cloud/GovCloud, an open-weight model on vLLM/Ollama air-gapped, a deterministic mock offline) and retrieval behind another. The frontend is dependency-free static files. One process serves both.

Limits. This is a governance instrument, not a planning system of record. The autonomy levels are illustrative — they plot where a formula would place authority, not what any real system should do. The doctrine base is a seven-stage summary with references, not the field manuals themselves. A worked example is fictitious training data.

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AAF is a working prototype. It models how AI autonomy could be governed across military planning (MDMP, JPP); it does not plan operations and it is not a system of record. Each methodology's seven-step doctrine base and the governance ladder are summaries with references; the worked example is fictitious. Any use in a real planning effort is the responsibility of whoever adopts the tool.