Long-Range Multiple Ballistic Missile Optimized Engagement in a Multi-Target Environment

Corvid Technologies proposes to develop a robust, fast running algorithm to calculate strategies for cooperative missile guidance of interceptors against multiple threats. These strategizes will determine the number of interceptors to be launched, their launch times, which threats they will engage, and will coordinate their flight paths to enhance lethality and lower cost. This algorithm will be developed using a two-tiered approach. First create a large database of optimized strategies spanning many different threat scenarios by using global optimization techniques such as evolutionary algorithms or covariance matrix adaptation. Second use this database to train a neural network to create optimized strategies in real time. This algorithm will be customized to the specific capabilities and limitations of a particular interceptor system through comprehensive simulation in order to cover the complete range of potential threat scenarios.