Attack Operations Decision Aid (AODA)

Customer:
United States Air Force Electronic Systems Center

Goal of Program:
ALPHATECH is part of a team of contractors developing the Attack Operations Decision Aid (AODA). The AODA will identify the best weapon assets to attack ground or pre-launch Theater Missiles (TMs) or other time critical targets (TCTs) through assessment of weapon capabilities. It will exploit integrated sensor capabilities to display detected target and weapons status and illustrate the availability of weapons for tasking. AODA will be integrated into the Theater Air Control System (TACS) and will be compliant with Global Command and Control System (GCCS) Defense Information Infrastructure (DII)/Common Operating Environment (COE) standards and products.

AODA will be integrated into principal C2 TACS facilities, aircraft, and equipment. Near term hosts considered are the Air Operations Center (AOC) and the Combat Integration Center (CIC). The long-term hosts considered include the CRC/MCE, ASOC, AWACS, and JSTARS. While integrated in these C2TACS Nodes, AODA will interact with other decision tools and databases such as TADAP, ADDA, RASM, NBCPA, TCTA, and JMEM, as envisioned in the Dynamic Battle Management (DMB) concept.

Key Technology:
Advanced algorithms for assigning available attack assets to time critical targets given risk presented by TCTs, air-to-air and surface-to-air threat environment, and attack asset availability.

Key Product:
AODA will provide the next generation attack operations automated decision capability by encompassing industry-wide technological advances in the attack operations area. These specialized areas include a) providing interoperability with an integrated network of sensors, and command nodes to allow rapid identification of the best weapon assets to attack time critical targets, b) accepting, analyzing, and distributing data in near real time from satellites, airborne radar and optical sensors, and ground-based search and tracking radars c) graphically displaying weapon engagement capabilities in order to illustrate the suitability of weapon tasking, d) optimizing the many on many problem including trade-offs between ATP directed targets, SEAD/escort and TCTs, and e) improving the BMC41 timeline for locating, identifying, attacking, and destroying time critical targets.