Integrated Air and Missile Defense Resource Management

Abstract

Integrated air and missile defense (IAMD) resource management can apply to many different commodities within today’s modern militaries. This article addresses radar resources, which are radio-frequency energy and time segments used to detect, track, and discriminate targets with a phased-array radar. IAMD radar resources can be managed at both the discrete dwell level and at the macro task level. The first part of this article presents an IAMD radar scheduling algorithm that uses a variation on interval and “earliest-deadline-first” scheduling to efficiently achieve desired search frame times while satisfying fixed task deadlines. The latter portion of the article then discusses the design of a track coordination algorithm for long-duration ballistic missile defense tasks. Both concepts are applicable to multifunction phased-array radars and were designed to improve efficiency while meeting existing performance parameters.