An Efficient Planning Method to Recommend COA Based on New Command and Control Organizational Structure Model

This article introduces a command and control (C2) organizational structure model, which can analyze military C2 organization structure from three perspectives: organizational elements, organizational relationships, and organizational processes. In the organizational processes, a decision-making problem of recommending course of action (COA) is described. Then, a planning method is proposed to solve this decision-making problem, which includes six evaluation metrics of COA effectiveness and a tabu search algorithm implemented within the C2 organization structure model. On this basis, we provide two application examples to demonstrate the usability of the proposed C2 organizational structure model and its COA planning method for operational decision-making.