Information system support for military aircraft operations SI SAMANTA as a tool to support logistic resource management

Civil Military Operations & Military Information Support Operations Coordination: A Non-Kinetic Ballast for Disciplined Counterinsurgency Operations

Counterinsurgency (COIN) operations start with discipline – the discipline to understand and execute a balance between kinetic and non-kinetic operations in shaping the battlespace and specific Target Audiences (TAs). Kinetic operations are actions in the battlespace that involve direct fires, indirect fires and other resources specifically intended to violently kill the enemy. Non-kinetic oper...

Functional Categories of Support to Operations in Military Information Systems

In order to group the functional requirements for support to operations by modern information systems systematically, the NATO Code of best Practise (COBP) for C2 Assessment defines three domain areas: Battlespace Visualization, Decision Making, and Battle Management Functions. In addition, within an domain overlapping information grid of the information system, necessary functions for assessin...

Decision Support Planners for Military Operations

Planning under uncertainty is a research subject that has attracted big attention in the past few years. A planner that operates under uncertainty must take into consideration that actions may have several different outcomes, some of which may be more desirable than others. The first developed decision support planners (DSP), use conventional Operations Research (OR) tools such as decision theo...

Loading aircraft for military operations

In this paper, we describe an aircraft loading problem submitted by the French military agency (DGA) as part of a more general military airlift planning problem. It can be viewed as a kind of bi-dimensional bin-packing problem, with heterogeneous bins and several additional constraints. We introduce two-phase methods for solving this NP-hard problem. The first phase consists in building good in...

Military Diving Operations and Medical Support