Our “Sensemaking” research addresses critical Army issues and outlines an innovative, high-risk, and high-payoff research approach to sensemaking of battlefield information. The research recognizes that individual soldiers and commanders have different views of the battlefield based on their tacit knowledge. The technology areas investigated in this research are: (a) Understanding shared and distributed team and individual situation awareness and impact on team /individual decision-making; (b) Methods for capturing individual and team tacit knowledge for developing an organizational knowledge base and for use in designing decision aids for use in training; (c) Studying and quantifying the impact of military organizational characteristics on sensemaking processes in the dynamic battlefield. Our research goal is to provide the Army’s Future Force with decision aiding models that will function collaboratively with human cognitive and decision-making capabilities of the warfighter. Our methodology combines normative-descriptive models of sensemaking processes to design: (a) a Sensemaking Model Architecture (SMA) - a testbed for cognitive process experiments; and (b) a SENSEWARE system- a decision-aiding software for use in constructive simulation of different cognitive strategies that require the understanding of sensemaking processes in a specified military task. Past decision aiding systems developed for Army applications depend on a template approach and are now less relevance for asymmetric warfare. Our software will provide the human decision-makers and existing legacy systems with sensemaking models to support efficient information management and decision-making for asymmetric battlespace domains. Empirical methods for validating theoretical constructs and hypotheses are investigated.  We will identify key Future Force command and control (C2) decision-making task scenarios early in the research and use them to demonstrate the efficacy for Army training and leadership development. Our team will work closely with the Army, Air Force, Marines, and Navy to conduct research on sensemaking tools required for the success of DoD’s Joint Vision 2020 doctrines, as well as leadership training for the Future Force. Figure 1(a) shows the military information flow and the sensemaking requirement. Typical intelligence generating mechanisms will be used to develop case stories needed for sensemaking modeling exercises.  Figure 1(b) shows the linkages and outcomes of our research.