SWARD: System for weapon allocation research & development

The allocation of firing units to hostile targets is an important process within the air defense domain. Many algorithms have been proposed for solving various weapon allocation problems, but evaluation of the performance of such algorithms is problematic, since it does not exist any standard scenarios on which to test the algorithms. It is to a large extent unknown how weapon allocation algorithms compare to each other when it comes to solution quality. We have developed the testbed SWARD, making it possible to systematically compare algorithm performance, and to support the development of new weapon allocation algorithms.