Adaptable SoS Environment for M&S Tools

Military sensor models comprise software codes that represent specific sensor technologies, such as infrared, radar, and LiDAR, so that sensor systems can be designed and integrated into Air Force platforms.Operating these codes requires system designers to expend considerable effort in translating the inputs and outputs of the various codes so that they interface properly. Integrating multiple sensor models is a daunting task, particularly as the number of sensor models increases.What is needed, and what ThermoAnalytics (TAI) intends to provide, is a System-of-Systems (SoS) environment with capability to integrate the operation of the full suite of senor models of interest to the Air Force.ThermoAnalytics will develop a governing software integration tool that provides operation capability of multiple sensor models from a single system simulation environment (SIMEN) by adapting our commercially successful SoS software tool, CoTherm.Standardized configuration files, intermediate data files/structures, and custom Application Program Interfaces (API) will be used to link the models without requiring changes to the native format.The SoS setup procedure will be widely adaptable to reduce the number of labor hours required to create an integrated SoS model using a wide range of disparate sensor models.