Adaptive Planning and Execution (APEX) is a framework used by the Department of Defense (DoD)

To manage and integrate strategic and operational planning and execution processes. It enables military and civilian leaders to develop, implement, and assess plans that support national defense and security objectives and is designed to be flexible, responsive, and adaptive to the complexities of modern military operations. Whether planning a military operation or a disaster response, today’s complex environments require robust plans that can dynamically adjust as situations change. 

Current military planning processes require an inordinate amount of slow, sequential manual production. Planning elsewhere in government and in the commercial world is similarly encumbered. These antiquated processes cannot possibly leverage the volumes of data available via the rich net-centric environment, and the resulting plans, orders and directives cannot sufficiently respond to the dynamics of a modern battlespace and the levels of detail required to support precision operations with integrated autonomy.

CSI’s Adaptive Planning (AP) Framework provides a suite of planning and decision support capabilities integrated with a secure distributed Agentic AI infrastructure that utilizes a knowledge-level “Living Plan” representation. It is the first operational APEX capability with an implementation of the Living Plan concept, supporting both highly detailed automated planning and continuous monitoring of plan execution. Leveraging Agentic AI to implement Sense & Respond (S&R) operational concepts, the AP Framework is the core “engine” driving CSI solutions and can easily be tailored to a specific domain based on that domain’s unique characteristics and the characteristics of the user’s organization.

One example of this, the Distribution and Retrograde Apex Management (DRAM), a CSI adaptive planning system, enables unparalleled collaboration and communication between echelons and across traditional stovepipes.

For another example of an Adaptive Planning application, please explore CSI’s Marine Corps Adaptive Planning (MCAP) capability.