Evaluation of Current Airborne Mine Countermeasures Mission Planning, Message Traffic, Post Mission Analysis and Potential Alternatives
Abstract
This thesis recommends improvements in airborne mine countermeasures (AMCM) mission planning, analysis, and reporting to reduce human error and decrease time to completion. AMCM missions are evaluated on how long it takes to complete tasking and how well tasking has been performed. Compared to many other mission sets, these metrics are almost entirely based off probability and offer very little room for subjectivity. Despite the precision suggested by these quantitative metrics, several of the tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) employed by the Navy during AMCM often conflict with these goals. Among those conflicting TTPs are inefficiencies in mission planning, message traffic, and post mission analysis that directly increase estimated time to completion (ETC). Hours to days of work can be wasted due to errors in message traffic that are largely input manually, and post mission analysis (PMA) being performed by inexperienced or fatigued aircrew. This thesis presents a solution for modernizing these processes to increase mission accomplishment. This is accomplished by evaluating current processes for inefficiencies and potential for human error, developing requirements for an improved system, and architecting and analyzing current and improved systems through the application of model-based systems engineering (MBSE). This thesis recommends funding and development of improved AMCM mission planning systems utilizing modern technology to address operational requirements.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 01, 2023
- Accession Number
- AD1224794
Entities
People
- Thomas H. Routt
Organizations
- Naval Postgraduate School