Cross-Sortie Flight Route Optimization

Existing flight planning systems, to the extent that they optimize routes at all, optimize individual flights in isolation. Airspace, air traffic, or diplomatic constraints, among others, may preclude all flights taking their individually optimal routes,however. Planners must then manually reroute some flights. This effort will apply OTS' strengths in flight planning and optimization to develop a parallelsystem capable of optimizing flight plans for multiple missions.simultaneously, taking all known constraints and business rules intoaccount. The USAF's Air Mobility Command (AMC) currently has no cross-sortie optimization capability, but the functionality is increasingly required given increasing airspace saturation, and their endorsement, attached, indicates their perceived need. Commercialairlines have similar needs to optimize across their entire schedules, and the technologies and systems resulting from this effort should find direct application in helping improve the competetiveness of US airlines.