Some Complexities in Military Planning

Some Factors in Planning for Future Military Data Automation Systems

Optimizing Military Capital Planning

Planning United States military procurement commits a significant portion of our nation’s wealth and determines our ability to defend ourselves, our allies, and our principles over the long term. Our military pioneered and has long used mathematical optimization to unravel the distinguishing complexities of military capital planning. The succession of mathematical optimization models we present...

Some Military Applications

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Decision-Theoretic Military Operations Planning

Military operations planning involves concurrent actions, resource assignment, and conflicting costs. Individual tasks sometimes fail with a known probability, promoting a decision-theoretic approach. The planner must choose between multiple tasks that achieve similar outcomes but have different costs. The military domain is particularly suited to automated methods because hundreds of tasks, sp...

A Study of Causality in Military Planning