OPUS Software
The ORCA Planning and Utility System (OPUS) was conceived in the early 1990s with a focus on modeling and optimizing the application of stealth aircraft. Since then there have been numerous applications of the underlying technology but OPUS was and still is software for military aircraft mission planning and analysis. Its autorouting and analysis functions continue to make OPUS useful for mission effectiveness and survivability studies including those that incorporate electronic attack. The software creates force level plans and generates terrain-aware, threat-avoiding individual sortie routes. OPUS optimizes in the target area, including weapon release maneuvers and sensor pointing. As such, OPUS has a role in intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) planning. Through the decades, OPUS has been used by a variety of organizations for both analyses and operations. More recently, OPUS has been part of architectures for ground based mission control stations for unmanned vehicles.