The Integration of the Joint Warfare Simulation (JWARS) and Global Command and Control System (GCCS) with Intelligent Agents through Web-Services

Abstract

For years, simulations have been used by analysis and planning staffs to develop and rehearse operation plans, analyze results, and develop doctrine. Typically, combat simulations are used most heavily during the planning stages of an operation. However, simulations are increasingly being used during operations to perform course of action analyses (COAA) and develop real-time forecasts of future conditions on the battlefield. Recent efforts by the Defense Modeling and Simulation Office (DMSO) to improve the interoperability of C4I systems with simulations has provided a powerful means for rapid simulation initialization and analysis during exercises, and made simulations more useful and responsive as the exercises are executed. These DMSO efforts involve technology development to support the integration of operational C4I systems, such as those in the Global Command and Control System (GCCS), with simulations such as the Integrated Theatre Engagement Model (ITEM) and the Joint Warfare Simulation (JWARS). This paper will describe the FY03 GCCS-ITEM-Intelligent Agent Federation project and its support for agent-based plan monitoring, discuss project results, and present its conclusions. It will also describe phase I (FY03) of the JWARS-GCCS Integration project, presenting initial results as well as preliminary conclusions. Finally, it will describe the FY04 Simulation-to- C4I Connectivity project, which is integrating the results of these two projects, leveraging the agents developed for the GCCS/ITEM federation, and extending them with additional monitoring capabilities to support the use of JWARS as an embedded tool for the C4I operator. In this integrated project, interfaces between operational C4I systems, simulations and intelligent agents are designed to exploit web-service technologies and the standardized information exchanges described by the NATO and Multilateral Interoperability Programme Command and Control Information Exchange Data Model (C2IEDM).

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2004
Accession Number
ADA638038

Entities

People

  • Gerald Depasquale
  • Ranjeev Mittu
  • Virginia T. Dobey

Organizations

  • United States Naval Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • C4I
  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Battlefields
  • Combatant Commanders
  • Command And Control
  • Command And Control Systems
  • Computer Programming
  • Control Systems
  • Databases
  • Grids
  • Information Exchange
  • Intelligent Agents
  • Interoperability
  • Language
  • Military Operations
  • Multiagent Systems
  • Simulations
  • Warfare
  • Web Service

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Agent-Based Social Robotics and Mobile-Assisted Learning in Virtual Environments.
  • Joint Military Operations and Doctrine.
  • Military Training and Readiness Simulation

Technology Areas

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