# Presentation: 668553

## Decision Support Capabilities:AF Tactical Decision Aids

**Major Kim Waldron**
**26 July 2000**

## Overview

**Mission Requirements**
**Warfighter Support**
**Tools**
**Tactical Decision Aids**
**Visualizations**

## Mission Requirements:Warfighter Support

- Pre-Deployment	Climo Impacts		     0-12 months
- /Deployment

- Mission Rehearsal	     Visualizations	      0-12 hours

- Theater Aerospace Operations

- Sustainment		Impacts on Sustainment    0-5 days

- Operations Planning	     Impacts on Ops	      24-72 hours

- Mission Planning	     Impacts on Missions    6-24 hours

- Mission Execution	     Re-targeting Wx	      during mission

- Re-Deployment	Re-Deployment Impacts   0-10 days

## Warfighter SupportReal-Time   Accurate   Relevant

***H-30 Days***

***H-120 Hours***

***H-72 Hours***

***H-36 Hours***

***H-12 Hours***

***H-3 Hours***

**-  Long-range planning**
**-  Troop deployments**
**-  Course of action development**

**-  Strategy Development **
**-  AEF & Force Deployment**

**-  CINC Guidance Letter**
**-  Shape of the Battlefield**
**-  Defensive / Offensive Planning**

**-  Build Tasking Order; Weapon Selection**
**-  AEF Employment; BDA**

***H-Hour***

**-  Mission Planning**

**- Tactic Selection**
**-  EOTDA / COMMS**

**-  Brief Crew**

**Weather people, weather information involved at every level**

***Bombs on Target/BDA***

***Climatology***
***air & space***

***Operational Area Forecast (air & space wx impacts)***

***Planning forecasts (air & space,***
***mission-specific)***

***5-day global / theater / space wx forecast***

***Target / enroute air & space forecasts***
***(go / no-go)***

## Mission Requirements:Planning and Execution

**Focus of current decision aids and on-going development work **
**Allows analysis of weather impacts on weapon system**
**Adjust target selection**
**Change mission timing**
**Pick alternate weapon**
**Optimize route of flight**

## Tools Overview

**Tactical Decision Aids**
**Warfighter Weather Effects (WxFX)**
**Integrated Weather Effects Decision Aid (IWEDA)**
**Joint Environmental Exploitation Segment (JEES)**
**Target Acquisition Weather Software (TAWS)**
**Geophysical and Environmental Effects Distributor (GEED)**
**Visualizations**

## Warfighter Weather Effects

**Will deliver high resolution weather effects / impacts products to the warfighter for mission rehearsal and long-range planning  **
**The program will produce Integrated Weather Effects Decision Aids (IWEDAs) and climatological IWEDAs  (CLIMOWEDAs) **
***POC: ASNE MSEA**** *

## Warfighter Wx Effects

***Warfighter Wx Effects***

## Integrated Weather Effects Decision Aid

**Rules-based application to produce graphical output (stoplight chart) for a given weapon system**
**Utilizes numerical weather prediction data  **
**POC: Army Research Laboratory / 88 WS**

## Technologies:Weather Effects Visualization

**IWEDA provides a stop-light representation of weather impacts on sensors, systems, platforms and operations at different times of the day based on critical value thresholds**

## Joint Environmental Exploitation Segment

**Part of a test version of Theater Air Planner (TAP)**
**Initial prototype interfaces with "canned" versions of the Target List and other available databases**
**Will be extended to incorporate weather impacts in additional areas including:**
**Joint Mission Planning System (JMPS)**
**Force Level Execution (FLEX)**** ****for target replanning during the ATO execution**
**Time Critical Targeting (TCT) **
**POC: AFRL**

## TAP Screen Mockup

- Cane 01

- Cane 01

## Cane 01

## Cane 01

## Cane 01

## TAP - All Better

- Cane 01

- Cane 01

## Target Acquisition Weather Software

**Utilizes models developed in several research programs to predict the impact of weather and environmental effects on IR, TV, NVG, and Laser weapon and navigation system performance and surveillance and targeting systems**
**Provides graphs for lock-on range versus time, lock-on range versus approach azimuth, and a graph showing approach angle to maximize sensor detection ranges**
**Joint program AF, Navy, and Army program**
**POC: AFRL*** *

## Target Acquisition Weather Software

***Target****** Acquisition Weather Software***

_**Tactical Tools**_
**Detection range**
**Best attack axis**
**Thermal Crossover**
**Polarity**
**Illumination**

## Geophysical Environmental Effects Distribution System

**Incorporates TDAs to determine atmospheric effects on weapons / sensor performance **
**Expands capability to include space environmental effects**
**Initially for wargaming and exercises**
**Future plans to provide operational capability**
**POC: AFRL**

## Geophysical Environmental

***Geophysical Environmental***
***Effects Distributor (GEED)***

**Notes:**
Go counterclockwise from sat pic to PIPPER

## Geophysical Environmental

**PIPPER and 2D Profile of**
** ****Scud Launcher (2000Z)**

***Geophysical Environmental***
***Effects Distributor (GEED)***

## Screen Capture of DIS Game Board

***Screen Capture of DIS Game Board***

## PIPPER and 2D Profile of

***PIPPER and 2D Profile of***
*** ******Scud Launcher (0500Z)***

## Game Board Showing EW Site

**Barstow EW site**

***Game Board Showing EW Site***

## PIPPER and 2D Profile of

***PIPPER and 2D Profile of***
*** ******EW Site’s Generator***

## Tools Overview

**Tactical Decision Aids**
**Visualizations**
**Infrared Target-scene Simulation Software (IRTSS)**
**Advanced Climate Modeling and Environmental Simulations (ACMES)**
**Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) visualization packages**

## CSSM/IRTSSInfrared Cloud Scenes

**Develops and upgrades models for predicting and visualizing weather impacts on air-to-ground IR targeting and navigation**
**Provides weather-impacted visualization of target scenes in the IR as they would be seen in cockpit displays**
**Being expanded to TV and NVG scenes **
**Situational awareness provides geographic cues to aid pilots in finding targets in a complex scene **
**POC: AFRL**

## CSSM/IRTSSInfrared Cloud Scenes

***Clouds Generated by CSSM, rendered with IRTSS***

## Advanced Climate Modeling and Environmental Simulation

**One-of-a-kind system that recreates high resolution (40km, 10km, [1km in Oct '00]) atmospheric data over selected, high-interest, data sparse areas using a limited-area mesoscale, physics-based model **
**Cornerstone of ASNE atmospheric data production**
**POC:  AFCCC / ASNE MSEA Office**

## Advanced Climate Modeling and Environmental Simulation

**Notes:**
- Using numerical modeling techniques we can provide a complete analysis that “fills-the-gap” between surface observing locations.
- Provides physically consistent data in
  -- horizontal
  -- vertical

## Summary:Support System Capabilities

**Decision Makers**
**Warfighter Support - Supported CINC, Air Operations Center, etc**
**Flight Safety - individual aircrews guided by MAJCOM directed limitations**
**Resource Protection - Wing or Installation Commander**

## Weather Impacts On Operations

**Weather Impacts On Operations**

**STRATRECCE**

**HI TACRECCE**

**LO TACRECCE**

**CAS**

**HELO OPS**

**TAC AIRLIFT**

**PERSONNEL**

**GROUND OPS**

**FAVORABLE**

**MARGINAL**

**UNFAVORABLE**

**PGMs**

**23/02Z**

**24/02Z**

**14Z**

**08Z**

**20Z**

**CREATED: 23 MAY 0200Z****  **

## Severe Wx Improvements

**New severe weather paradigm -- 2 HOUR WARNINGS ON POTENTIAL**
**Base-wide severe wx education is key**
**Enhances combat readiness**
**New products and services will help -- AFWA providing 2 hour point wx warnings for active, guard, and reserve bases **
**Reengineering the long term solution**

***Use base-wide team approach to protect people and resources from severe wx***

## Summary:Support System Capabilities

**Developing multi-purpose decision aids**
**Planning / Execution**
**New TDAs will include optical turbulence in support of the Airborne Laser Program**
**CONOPS are evolving with technology and support infrastructure changes**