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Mission Planning Systems for Tactical Aircraft (Pre-Flight and In-Flight)

AGARD Joint Working Group 15 was authorized in 1988 and
commenced work in February 1989. Its members were
nominated by the two AGARD Panels (Aerospace Medical and
Avionics) that were responsible for Establishing the Working
Group and for its operation, together with two other Panels
(Guidance & Control and Flight Mechanics) whose areas of
technical interest were also relevant to the subject matter of the
working group. The involvement of these naninees from four
AGARD panels can be seen as an indication of the interest that
has recently been generated by advancements in the field of
missionplanning.
The authorization of the Working Group was in recognition of
the rapid development in the state-of-the-art in various pre-flight
activities that can be grouped under the title ”missionplanning"
that are aimed at maximizing the effectiveness of a military
aircraft, including aircrew, in the subsequent mission. It was
perceived. during the preparation of the terms of reference, that
much commonality existed between the data used in pre-flight
planning and that used during the mission, and the scope of the
Working Group was defined to encompass planning and re-
planning both pre-fiight and in—flight. It also became apparent
that the use of powerful airborne and ground-based data storage
and data processing would allow aircrew to examine in detail
some critical phases of the mission before actually flying them.
leading to the concept of mission rehearsal as an extension of
mission planning.
The Working Group was authorized to conduct its studies in two
phases. Phase One was to cover an assessment of the overall
concepts and the technical possibilities, together with the
identification of critical technologies. The Working Group
decided during Phase One that their studies should be oriented
towards system tasks and features as well as towards
technologies, and hence the conclusions of the Phase One
studies included the listing of a variety of topics that were
assessed to be worthy of further examination in Phase Two.