Deck Operations Course of Action Planner (DCAP)

The Deck operations Course of Action Planner (DCAP) is designed to aid in planning on aircraft carrier decks. This environment is highly complex, with myriad failures and highly variable processing times, failure rates, and failure durations. The DCAP system serves as a decision support tool for a supervisor overseeing people, vehicles, and unmanned vehicles working in this environment.

The DCAP interface provides both up-to-the-minute information about the current state of operations – the location of all entities in the environment, their upcoming tasks, and the current usage of deck resources – and the ability for a User to work with a planning algorithm to request new schedules on deck. The DCAP interface provides the User the ability change scheduling priorities, change the designation of priority aircraft, and manipulate the schedules of these priority aircraft in real time. The planning algorithm then takes these User specifications for use in creating a new schedule, which is returned to the User for review.