Decision Aiding Concepts for Air Strike Planning.

Abstract

This report describes the design of an air strike plan decision aid system integrating ideas and techniques developed in the ONR ODA program. The general air strike planning problem is structured to identify and classify objectives, constraints, decisions, and influencing factors. Using the structure, decisions are divided into five problem areas: target selection, weapon allocation, mission formation and assignment, mission routing and scheduling, and contingency planning. A decision aid system called the Air Strike Planner (ASP) is presented as a flexible approach to strike planning, enabling the strike planner to attack the decision area in any sequence and level of detail desired. To describe at a more detailed level the ASP approach to a strike planning aid, the weapons allocation portion of ASP is described as a stand-alone aid called the Weapons Allocation Aid for Strike Planning (WAASP). Special attention is given to areas where ODA aids, techniques, and principles might be suitably applied. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1980
Accession Number
ADA096060

Entities

People

  • Floyd A. Glenn
  • Jay M. Bennett

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • C4I
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Defense
  • Air Strikes
  • Business Administration
  • Command And Control
  • Contingency Operations (Military)
  • Databases
  • Fighter Aircraft
  • Human Factors Engineering
  • Military Research
  • Munitions
  • Numbers
  • Operations Research
  • Simulators
  • Tanker Aircraft
  • Task Forces
  • Warfare
  • Weapon Delivery

Readers

  • Aerospace Engineering
  • Operations Research
  • Systems Analysis and Design