SCARS Migration Toolkit (SCARS-MT)

To combat rising sustainment costs, the AF is establishing the Simulator Common Architecture Requirements and Standards (SCARS) sustainment initiative. SCARS will define a modular open Simulator Common Architecture (SCA) that provides a common infrastructure for Air Force simulators. Migrating existing simulators to the SCA will require significant effort. Each team will face many challenges and obstacles that, while similar in nature, are dependent on the legacy simulator’s baseline software and hardware, vehicle type, training role, and other factors. Repeatedly facing and overcoming these similar migration challenges is inefficient. What is needed is a set of tools to support the migration of these high-value simulators, with disparate system architectures, to a single common baseline. The proposed SCARS Migration Toolkit (SCARS-MT) streamlines the process of transforming monolithic legacy simulators into modular systems that utilize and comply with the SCA. SCARS-MT analyzes legacy simulator code regardless of the language or platform allowing the migration team to fully understand the software’s attributes, including the structure and data flow. The analysis is used to compare the legacy simulator implementation to the SCA, and a roadmap for re-engineering the legacy code is developed. Additional SCARS-MT capabilities assist the migration team throughout the migration process.