A Proposed Engineering Process and Prototype Toolset for Developing C2-to-Simulation Interoperability Solutions

Abstract

The Coalition Battle Management Language (C-BML) is an open standard being developed for the exchange of digitized military information among command and control (C2), simulation and autonomous systems by the Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization (SISO). As the first phase of the C-BML standard nears its release, the Phase 2 Drafting Group (DG) has proposed a framework to identify and track the concerns and requirements to be addressed in the next major C-BML standard release. Following this proposition, the NATO Modeling and Simulation Group 085 started an activity to put into place a prototype engineering process for the development and maintenance of a unified C2-SIMulation (C2SIM) Scenario INitialization and EXecution (SINEX) Model. As part of this activity, the group also developed a draft C2SIM Distributed Simulation Engineering and Execution Process (DSEEP) Overlay for the development of federations comprised of simulation and C2 systems. The current paper reports on these activities and also provides recommendations for the integration of the SINEX Process as part of a unified C2SIM interoperability standard that will include the alignment and convergence between the Military Scenario Definition Language (MSDL) and CBML.

Open PDF

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 2014
Accession Number
ADA607028

Entities

People

  • Bruno Gautreau
  • Kevin Heffner
  • Lionel Khimeche
  • Nico De Reus
  • Ole-martin Mevassvik

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Autonomous Systems
  • Battle Management
  • Battles
  • Command And Control
  • Department Of Defense
  • Engineering
  • Information Exchange
  • Information Systems
  • Interoperability
  • Language
  • Message Processing
  • Models
  • Prototypes
  • Simulations
  • Standards
  • Systems Engineering
  • Xml

Fields of Study

  • Computer science
  • Engineering

Readers

  • Aerospace Propulsion Engineering.
  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.

Technology Areas

  • Autonomy
  • Fully Networked C3
  • Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control