On Assigning Long-Endurance Unmanned Aircraft Systems to Theater Combatant Commands

Abstract

We describe, formulate, and propose a heuristic algorithm for Strategic Command's problem of assigning long-endurance unmanned aircraft systems to theater combatant commands (COCOMs). We identify the problem's important characteristics, which include the relative priorities of the different COCOMs, the relative priorities of the different requirements in each COCOM, the different amounts of aircraft time required to work on the different requirements, and the probabilistic results of pursuing a given task. We formulate the problem as a binary nonlinear program (NLP) with a polynomial objective function and linear constraints. We identify the data required to define an instance of the problem. We discuss different approaches to finding solutions to the NLP and recommend a greedy heuristic algorithm, which is given in detail.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 2010
Accession Number
ADA513753

Entities

People

  • Roger C. Burk

Organizations

  • United States Military Academy

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • C4I
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Algorithms
  • Engineering
  • Human Intelligence
  • Mathematical Programming
  • National Security
  • Operations Research
  • Optimization
  • Surveillance
  • Systems Engineering
  • Unified Combatant Commands
  • United States
  • United States Military Academy
  • United States Strategic Command
  • Unmanned Aerial Systems
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
  • Unmanned Systems

Readers

  • Adaptive Control and Estimation with Uncertainty in Dynamic Systems.
  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • Autonomy
  • Autonomy - UAVs