Interoperability between Modeling and Simulation Applications and Army Command and Control Systems for Planning/Decision Support

"The utilization of Modeling and Simulation (M&S) technology to support the life cycle development, fielding, training and sustainment of military systems has demonstrated tremendous benefit as M&S applications have matured. The benefits ofinteroperability between M&S applications and Command and Control (C2) systems are becoming increasingly more evident as successful implementations are developed and used in Army experiments and exercises. As M&S technology improves, more successful usehas been applied across domains and the benefit of interoperability, particularly in time, cost and effectiveness, has been demonstrated. This Phase II effort will demonstrate a common data representation that will provide interoperability between M&Sapplications and Army C2 systems for planning and decision support. The focus will be on Army C2 systems and constructive force-on-force simulation systems that are used for analysis, training, and as scenario drivers (e.g., OneSAF, Janus, Eagle, WARSIM2000). ACS will use an innovative approach for this problem through specification of the C2 representation from a purely data perspective that is independent of a particular simulation architecture."