Mission Planning and Battle Management
- Overview
- Course Content
- Requirements & Materials
Who Should Attend
This course is designed for engineers, technicians, researchers, and professionals in the defense, aerospace, and logistics industries looking to enhance their understanding of autonomous unmanned systems.

What You Will Learn
- The history and introduction to mission planning and battle management
- Key front-end analyses and their impact on system effectiveness
- Practice in writing and updating effective requirements and verification documentation
- MPE environments, systems, and constraints on UAS mission planning
- Interactions with manned platforms and users across air, surface, subsurface
- Critical task analyses to determine roles and levels of required automation
- Effective human user interfaces for both UAS mission planning and UAS employment
- Effective and redundant data links and management systems design
- Airworthiness approval and developmental and operational test (DT/OT) for MPE and UAS interfaces planning
- Operational use of systems, including system support and modernization planning

The course schedule was well-structured with a mix of lectures, class discussions, and hands-on exercises led by knowledgeable and engaging instructors.