A quantitative and qualitative approach for targeting as a weapon-target assignment.

• Ano de defesa: 2010
• Autor(a) principal: Rainer Ferraz Passos
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: eng
• Instituição de defesa: Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica
• Palavras-chave em Português: Otimização; Aquisição de alvos; Comando e controle; Análise combinatória; Teoria multicritério da decisão; Programação não-linear; Pesquisa operacional; Tecnologia militar; Matemática; Engenharia militar
• Link de acesso: http://www.bd.bibl.ita.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=1107

This essay presents the construction of a two-steps approach using Weapon-Targeting Assignment (WTA) problem mathematical modeling and Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) addressing two phases of the the targeting cycle, concerning both targeting and weaponeering activities on the context of a small Joint Force Air Component, in order to support timely, feasible, and conflict-consistent decision-making on weapon-target assignments. It starts clarifying the motivation for this work, related to personal operational activities. It is assumed that this past experience allowed the perception of staff difficulties which are presented as effects whose causes led to scoping this essay into constructing a suitable approach for using WTA models and AHP for supporting Command and Control processes. The relevant concepts of Command and Control are introduced, and it follows with nsiderations about WTA and targeting on related work, as well as about AHP being suitable to support the addressed problem. At this point the asset-target evaluation and tradeoff assessment are assumed as risks and benefits of the possible alternatives. The WTA formulation is made to include doctrinal and restrain criteria to approximate the provided solutions to the needs of the decision-makers, pointing out to the advantage of defining few alternatives from the large combinatorial realm, which simplifies the use of AHP. This work also describes a case for the proposed approach which clarifies the concepts presenting their practical usage. The discussion of this case leads finally to the conclusions of the approach suitability and to suggested ideas for field evaluation.