Air Vehicle Mission Deconfliction

An air vehicle management system comprising:

• a computer system;
• and
• a resource manager in the computer system, wherein the resource manager is configured to:
• group missions for air vehicles into categories based on durations of the missions;
• cluster the missions within the categories into subsets of the missions that can be concurrently performed meeting a set of mission performance criteria;
• and
• assign the subsets of the missions to a set of air vehicle supervisors.

A computer program product for operating air vehicles, the computer program product comprising:

• a computer-readable storage media;
• first program code, stored on the computer-readable storage media, executable by a computer system to cause the computer system to group missions for the air vehicles into categories based on durations of the missions;
• second program code, stored on the computer-readable storage media, executable by the computer system to cause the computer system to cluster the missions within the categories into subsets of the missions that can be concurrently performed meeting a set of mission performance criteria;
• and
• third program code, stored on the computer-readable storage media, executable by the computer system to cause the computer system to assign the subsets of the missions to a set of air vehicle supervisors.