Air Superiority Plan: SIPE-2 Representation

OVERVIEW

This page contains a textual summary of the SIPE representation of an Air Superiority Plan created within the CPEF system for the Granola scenario. The overall plan is derived by successively refining high-level air-objectives down to a task-level consisting of CAP-related missions and targets. Assumed inputs for the system include COG and threat analyses.

The plan contains three main phases:

Establishment of Defensive Air Superiority
Establishment of a Breach through Red IADS
Extension of Air Superiority through the breach into Red territory

This documents shows the plan as it develops from Level 1 down to Level 5, along with the final plan at Level 16.

EXPLANATION OF SUMMARIES

In general, each line in a summary corresponds to a single node in a given level of the plan. For each node, the following information is displayed:

TYPE: indicates the category of node. Possible types are
SPLIT: designate the beginning of a group of nodes that can proceed in parallel
JOIN: designates the termination of a group of nodes that can proceed in parallel
GOAL: designates an objective that must be refined
PROCESS: designates a low-level action in the plan
PHANTOM: designates some goal that is already supported by some other action in the plan
LABEL: provides a unique identifier for a node (which can be used to index into the graphical representation of the plan) Examples of labels are C2273 and P1672. Nodes whose labels begin with C correspond to `control nodes'; those with P correspond to process, phantom, or goal nodes.
CONTENT: the actions/conditions associated with that node (NOTE: control nodes such as SPLIT and JOIN have no displayed content)

This representation of plans does not include explicit assignment of temporal constraints on actions. In general, the ordering of node descriptions within a summary reflects precedence relationships amongst nodes. To demaracate a set of nodes that operate in parallel, a line of the form

Parallel branch:

is used. For example

Parallel branch:

GOAL: P308 (PROTECT-THREATENED-PLACE SANFILIPE AIR-THREAT VAN-NUYS D+0 DAYTIME MED)

GOAL: P309 (PROTECT-THREATENED-PLACE SANFILIPE STRIKE-THREAT VAN-NUYS D+0 DAYTIME LOW)

indicates a pair of goals that have no ordering constraints between them.

Click here for the SIPE-2 representation of the plan.