M&S Foundations
Abstract
Modeling and Simulation Foundations (MSF) focuses on integrating foundational capabilities needed to improve the usefulness, productivity, scalability and efficiency of Modeling and Simulation (M&S) capabilities derived from the Warfighter Readiness (WR) thrust, the Accelerated Acquisitions (AA) thrust, and the New and Emerging Warfighting Capabilities (NEWC) thrust. MSF is the: standards, policies, procedures, architectures, and tools that enable the rapid and efficient composition of distributed environments to support both the warfighter needs and the US Air Force's (USAF) functional communities of: acquisition, training, planning, analysis, testing, training, education, and experimentation requirements. The efforts supporting the MSF thrust include both concept exploration and development. Activities also include studies and analysis to support both current program planning and execution and future program planning. This also funds the USAF in its capacity as the Department of Defense (DoD) Modeling and Simulation Executive Agent (MSEA) for the Aerospace Natural Environment. MSF's objective is to establish a USAF Live-Virtual-Constructive-Integrated Architecture (LVC-IA) that provides a persistent network of constructive computer simulations, man-in-the-loop virtual simulators, and live forces/resources in an interoperable environment that supports USAF organizations and the functional communities. This objective will be achieved by MSF providing tools, standards and interfaces to be used by model developers and users to ensure efficiencies and model reuse. MSF provides the capability to rapidly and efficiently create realistic and accurate synthetic operational battlespaces to support the full spectrum of activities associated with concept development to acquisition and testing through composite training and mission rehearsal. This is done by providing appropriate authoritative data and component representations. With the capability generated via MSF, users will readily access available repositories of reusable, validated, and integrated synthetic components. Synthetic components include representations of operational battlespace entities (such as friendly and enemy assets) and representations of the natural environment that include the terrain, atmospheric and space weather effects; and energy and signal propagation effects. The rapid composition is based on a durable common architecture framework, policies, and common standards. MSF capability also supports: efficient, cost-effective verification, validation, and accreditation activity across all of the M&S functional and organizational communities. As the DoD Air and Space Natural Environment Modeling and Simulation Executive Agent (ASNE MSEA), the Air Force coordinates all aspects of DoD M&S related to representations of the air and space natural environment. The tools developed through this include the Environmental Scenario Generator, the Environmental Data Cube Support System, and the Space Weather Analysis. ASNE MSEA collaborates with other national partners to provide the USAF and DoD access to authoritative natural environment scenarios necessary for robust "What-if" mission planning and rehearsal and for realistic training, analysis, and acquisition. ASNE MSEA leads the development and execution of the DoD Integrated Natural Environment Authoritative Representation Process (INEARP) Concept of Operations.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2012
- Source ID
- 674567_0207601F_7_3600_PB_2012
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