A two-step optimisation method for dynamic weapon target assignment problem

The weapon target assignment (WTA) problem has been designed to match the Command & Control (C2) requirement in military context, of which the goal is to find an allocation plan enabling to treat a specific scenario in assigning available weapons to oncoming targets. The WTA always get into situation weapons defending an area or assets from an enemy aiming to destroy it. Because of the uniqueness of each situation, this problem must be solved in real-time and evolve accordingly to the aerial/ground situation. By the past, the WTA was solved by an operator taking all the decisions, but because of the complexity of the modern warfare, the resolution of the WTA in using the power of computation is inevitable to make possible the resolution in real time of very complex scenarii involving different type of targets. Nowadays, in most of the C2 this process is designed in order to be as a support for a human operator and in helping him in the decision making process. The operator will give its final green light to proceed the intervention.