mission planning (Intelligent Mission Automated Planning System - IMAPS)

The advent of network-enabled warfare capability and the consequential improvement in near real-time situational awareness now requires the rapid and frequent re-tasking of both manned aircraft and UAVs.

However, it has been found that re-planning the mission tactics in detail can be the bottleneck in the overall re-planning cycle. The current generation of flight planning systems are designed to generate a single flight plan in full detail, but not to rapidly generate 'what if' alternative tactical mission scenarios.

IMAPS™ is being developed by Agent Oriented Software to meet this new military requirement, providing mission planning staff with a comprehensive decision support aid thereby allowing them rapidly to asses new mission taskings, taking into account:

• military/political constraints - such as Rules of Engagement,
• aircraft capabilities – weapons load and fuel trade-offs,
• equipment status – search radar / counter measures availability,
• nature of the battlefield environment - location of enemy defences and friendly support aircraft.

IMAPS is based upon the JACK™ Intelligent Agent Toolset, including the JACKSim™ graphical simulation environment.