Project Focus: A Study of Virtual Proving Ground Software Architecture Requirements
Abstract
The virtual proving ground (VPG) is a concept being developed within the U.S. Army Test and Evaluation Command to harness the power of state-of-the-art sophisticated modeling and simulation technologies to augment and enhance test and evaluation in support of product acquisition. VPG is a cohesive and comprehensive capability for testing concepts, virtual prototypes, hardware prototypes, subsystems, and full systems. A broad, far-reaching, and diverse set of capabilities is envisioned within the VPG. Critical to the successful implementation of the VPG is an architecture able to support or enable those capabilities. A major function of the VPG architecture will be to integrate dissimilar heterogeneous engineering level models and simulations of prototype and production hardware and the synthetic environments in which they operate. In 1996, the U.S. Army Aberdeen Test Center and the U.S. Army Research Laboratory jointly conducted 'Project Focus' to help determine the architectural requirements that support the VPG concept. This report contains a description of Project Focus and the architectural requirements that resulted from it.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 01, 1997
- Accession Number
- ADA330855
Entities
People
- Alan W. Scramlin
- Geoffrey C. Sauerborn
- Kenneth G. Smith
- Robert R. Shankle
- Robert W. Gauss
Organizations
- United States Army Research Laboratory