Patent ID: 6995660

Claim:
A decision aid system for use in the defense of combat ground vehicles comprising: a means for track fusion comprising a means for temporal association, a means for spatial association, and a means for type association, wherein said means for track fusion initializes tracks using onboard, offboard and pre-battle data, a means for threat typing connected to said means for track fusion, wherein said means for threat typing combines threat type confidence values from said data using a Dempster-Shafer algorithm to determine a threat type, a means for threat prioritization connected to said means for threat typing, wherein said means for threat prioritization utilizes threat type confidence to assign priorities to threats, a means for countermeasures (CM) response management connected to said means for threat prioritization, wherein said means for countermeasures management deploys and controls CMs when necessary, and a means for CM effectiveness assessment connected to said means for threat typing, said means for threat prioritization, and said means for CM response management, wherein said means for CM effectiveness assessment uses elapsed time to drop one or more tracks.