The ORCA Planning and Utility System
(OPUS) started out as an interactive military aircraft mission planning tool.
OPUS technology has expanded greatly since the initial coding in 1989. It remains
true that the fast and accurate autorouting and analysis functions that are
at the core of this software make OPUS useful for mission effectiveness and
survivability studies. The software also performs force level planning as well
as generating terrain aware threat avoiding individual sortie routes. OPUS optimizes
in the target area including sensor pointing and weapon release maneuvers. OPUS
includes utility functions for manipulating terrain information, threat data,
weapon characteristics, vehicle performance data, and route plans.
OPUS is used for both operational
and analytical applications. The incorporation of functionality to parse Air
Tasking Orders (ATO) has made OPUS a valuable tool for the USAF Combat Air
Force which has licensed it for use at multiple wings. This functionality
(sometimes referred to as the Hill ATO Defragger) is available in OPUS version
2.47 and later.
What's New in OPUS 3.3 OPUS Overview
