Automated Battle Management / Planning Aids

The first step in performing effective battle management is to understand the threat. Current sensors provide the majority of the information needed to build a complete threat picture. The main issue is the complexity of the data and the multiplicity of the sources, types and time sensitivity of the data inputs. The available sensors range from the current DSP constellation to theater level assets such as AEGIS all the way down to tactical assets such as PATRIOT and SENTINEL. The majority of the theater and tactical systems inject their track data into the LINK-16 network, while the DSP systems are broadcast over TACSAT links. The key to utilizing this data effectively for battle management is turning the data into a coherent picture of the BattleSpace in near real-time. Once this is accomplished, the potential benefits for conducting Joint Theater Air and Missile Defense (JTAMD) are great. Phase I of this effort will provide an initial capability to collect, database and associate DSP/ONIR launch reports to produce a single launch and impact report for each event. This will be used as the foundation to build a system which will correlate all available sensors, producing a single track for each launch event.