A Common Coalition Toolset
Abstract
The recent I/ITSEC 2001 Coalition Training Demonstration held between the US, Australian and Dutch Navies demonstrated a valid coalition training exercise using Advanced Distributed Simulation to simultaneously connect military training simulators in the USA, Australia and the Netherlands. Whilst participating in the setting up and running of this exercise each participating nation used whatever tools were available to establish and maintain connectivity and interoperability. As one of the lessons learned from such a coalition exercise, this paper discusses a proposal to make available to all participating coalition nations a Common Coalition Toolset (CCT) which comprises a set of software applications used to establish and maintain connectivity and interoperability for such coalition training demonstrations and/or exercises. This paper describes some of the software applications making up this Common Coalition Toolset and what operating systems / programing tool kits etc. should be considered when creating such Common Coalition Toolset applications.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Aug 01, 2002
- Accession Number
- ADA410806
Entities
People
- Lucien Zalcman
Organizations
- Defence Science and Technology Group