1. A system comprising: a plurality of electronically controlled distributed devices; and a supervisory node comprising a communications interface, a processor coupled to the communications interface, and a display coupled to the processor, the supervisory node configured to communicate with the plurality of electronically controlled distributed devices via the communications interface, the supervisory node adapted to receive sensor information from the plurality of electronically controlled distributed devices, to receive functionality information and device status information from the plurality of electronically controlled distributed devices, to determine useful life prognostics from the functionality information using the processor, to obtain human defined policy and strategy directives, to assess the useful life prognostics and device status information based on the human defined policy and strategy directives using the processor to provide device assessments, to construct device commands for the plurality of electronically controlled distributed devices based on the device assessments using the processor, and to communicate the device commands to the plurality of electronically controlled distributed devices via the communications interface.