*2.1. Mission Overview*

The problem of radar network resource management for ballistic missile defense is to deal with the schedule assignments of individual radars to precisely track the target. In this paper, we concentrate on the resource management problem of local radars that can perform precise target tracking, assuming that there is an EWR systems that can observe the whole battlefield situation. The objective function of radar resource assignment in a multi-target multi-radar situation should consider: (1) target priority for each radar; (2) continuity of target tracking; and (3) maximization of the number of tracked targets for the entire networked radar systems.

The decision maker in Figure 1 performs local radar resource management. Prior knowledge (predicted target trajectory) for resource management can be obtained through the EWRs in sensor systems, which can observe a relatively large area compared to local radar.

**Figure 1.** Schematic of system related to scheduling problem.
