Military Ontologies for Information Dissemination at the Tactical Edge.

In this paper we present our methodology for constructing the Tactical Heterogenous Ontology Representation (THOR), a doctrine-based military ontology that models numerous aspects of the military domain as described by field manuals, joint publications, and scenarios informed by subject matter experts. Developed for DARPA’s Content-Based Mobile Edge Network (CBMEN) program, the ontology provides the conceptual vocabulary needed to describe and request the warfighter-generated content. CBMEN leverages smart device technologies alongside concepts from contentbased networking and knowledge representation in order to enable intelligent reasoning over dynamic mission data and the efficient transmission of critical mission content at the tactical edge.