GALAGA: AI Deliberate Scenario Planning for Agile Combat Employment
A New Approach to Mission Readiness
Mission readiness in today’s contested environments demands speed, precision, and adaptability. For the Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC), supporting agile combat teams across distributed theaters requires more than just tracking inventory. It requires anticipating needs, simulating outcomes, and making confident, data-driven decisions in real time.
SBIR-Funded Development and Key Partnerships
To meet this challenge, AFSOC partnered with Air Force CyberWorx to develop a new kind of solution. The result was GALAGA, the Global Assessment and Logistics Allocation Guidance Assistant, an AI-powered logistics planning tool designed to support operational agility during Agile Combat Employment (ACE) missions.
GALAGA was created through a Direct-to-Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract awarded to Cypress Resources (now CYPR AI), in collaboration with AF CyberWorx, the Rapid Sustainment Office (RSO), and AFWERX. To ensure the platform could support real-world mission requirements, LinQuest was brought in to provide additional expertise in securely ingesting and processing both sensitive and classified information.
Turning Data Overload into Actionable Insight
At its core, GALAGA was designed to solve a common operational bottleneck: too much data, spread across too many systems, taking too long to act on. By turning that fragmented information into coherent, actionable insights, GALAGA enables faster, more deliberate planning, even under crisis conditions. It supports everything from systematic replanning and policy alignment to stress-testing decisions under complex constraints.
What sets GALAGA apart is its ability to combine scalable AI modeling with transparent, explainable simulation. The system runs hundreds of mission-specific simulations, each with over 10,000 steps, evaluating terrain, supply availability, threat posture, and PMESII (Political, Military, Economic, Social, Infrastructure, and Information) factors. It then generates and ranks Courses of Action (COAs) by confidence level. More importantly, it allows users to walk backward through each recommendation, tracing the logic, data, and assumptions that led to the output. This creates a true human-machine partnership, where commanders understand not just what the system recommends, but why.
AI Logistics: The GALAGA Process
GALAGA’s process follows a disciplined pipeline: ingest, train, evaluate, assess, and alert. It brings together doctrine, mission orders, and operational data to automate both Mission Analysis (MA) and Course of Action (COA) development. Each plan is then pressure-tested for feasibility, value, and alignment with commander’s intent, ensuring the system supports decision-makers without obscuring the reasoning.
PIA Enabled Industry Collaboration
Through the Partnership Intermediary Agreement (PIA) with Catalyst Campus for Technology and Innovation (CCTI), AF CyberWorx assembled a cross-functional team of operational users, software developers, and logistics planners to shape the system from the ground up. At the center of this collaboration, CYPR AI served not only as a technology provider but as a trusted innovation partner, ensuring the user experience was tightly aligned with frontline needs.
What’s Next: Advancing Toward Phase III and Continuing the Mission
Phase II development is now complete, delivering a robust Minimum Viable Product (MVP) already recognized for its impact. The GALAGA team received the MG Harris Trailblazer Award from the Logistics Officer Association, an honor awarded to teams that drive bold, forward-thinking solutions in military logistics. GALAGA’s ability to explain its outputs, simulate realistic planning environments, and enable rapid, confident decision-making earned it that distinction.
With Phase II concluded, AF CyberWorx and its partners are actively advancing toward Phase III, exploring an Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract to continue development, operational integration, and commercial transition. This path enables direct funding for future enhancements, streamlined procurement through sole-source authority, and expansion through strategic teaming.
As missions grow faster and more complex, Air Force CyberWorx will continue driving practical innovation that keeps the warfighter equipped, agile, and ready.
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