Wargaming Event Design, Scenario Development, and Execution Software Suite for Modeling and Simulation (M&S) Tool Automation

Modern wargaming combines computer-aided Modeling and Simulation (M&S) and analytical adjudication to provide an immersive platform to prototype, examine, and rate strategic decisions in any conceivable situation. To ensure quality realism, such a platform must be highly complex, requiring many distinct and specialized systems to correctly interoperate in an appropriate sequence. Tau Technologies proposes to create an inclusive Wargaming Planning and Execution user interface that unifies the various systems of the wargaming event process, from planning and development to execution and analysis. As a demonstration of this interface’s capabilities, we will leverage and enhance our existing M&S suite for space to showcase an example scenario of the customer’s design. Our suite contains custom applications designed to streamline the user workflow and improve the user experience within a full-featured and government-owned simulation framework – the Advanced Framework for Simulation, Integration, and Modeling (AFSIM). AFSIM has several versatile, multi-domain applications, whose capabilities Tau’s suite has extended even further. To make these extensions, Tau employed various Agile development techniques including unit and user testing, continuous integration and deployment, and customer-informed sprint requirement lists and backlogs. Using similar techniques, Tau can incrementally incorporate periodic customer feedback to simultaneously meet customer needs and advance AFSIM’s capabilities.