Simulation Gateway (SG)

Increasingly, national and international organizations are relying on a standards-based simulation infrastructure to interconnect simulation capabilities, to increase simulation interoperability and control modeling and simulation (M&S) costs. The High Level Architecture (HLA) has emerged as the Department of Defense (DoD) and multinational standard of choice for simulation infrastructure The HLA however, does not provide for federations of simulations operating at different security levels. A clear need exists for multi-security-level (MSL), HLA-complaint infrastructure components that will allow for simulations of a federation to operate at different security levels. Trident Systems proposes to develop a MSL simulation capability based on Trident's MSL Collaboration Gateway and the NSA-certified ISSE Guard. We will develop the Simulation Gateway (SG) architecture to support multi-security level simulation federations of combat systems. In developing the SG architecture, we will rely on our experience and expertise and build upon our current efforts in which we are developing a MSL text chat capability. We will also leverage our research into HLA configuration management of simulations using Trident InterchangeSE to address interoperability issues between multi-national federations.