AIR TASKING ORDER OPTIMIZATION MODEL

Abstract

Combined Air Operation Center (CAOC) provides command and control in operational level in air operations planning and execution. Operation cycle in CAOC requires planning and controlling 1000-1500 flights daily and creates information overload and time pressure on the decision makers. Under such complicated circumstances, achieving the decision superiority and keeping it emerges as a force multiplier. This study proposed a decision support model to achieve the decision superiority by generating Air Tasking Order (ATO) in a short time which contains assignment information of aircraft, munitions and targets. In this context, target selection process is modeled by heuristic methods, the aircraft are assigned to the targets using P-median model and therefore a complete solution is proposed for the operations planning process. The applicability of the proposed model is tested on several generic scenarios.

Keywords

• Target Selection
• ATO Generation
• Network Problem
• Greedy Algorithm
• P-Median Location
• Dijkstra’s Algorithm