BOM Working Session Purpose and Mission

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BOM Working SessionPurpose and Mission

• Paul Gustavson

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BOM Working SessionWhat Are We?
Purpose Mission

• Post SG
• Pre PDG
• Part PROC

Experience?
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Other Jello? Technologies
Purpose Mission

• Telephone

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Other Jello? Technologies
Purpose Mission

• Telephone

The telephone has to many shortcomings to be
seriously considered as a means of communication.
The device is inherently of no value to us.
Western Union internal memo, 1876
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Other Jello? Technologies
Purpose Mission

• Telephone
• Electric Light

When the Paris Exhibition closes, electric light
will close with it and no more will be heard of
it.
Erasmus Wilson, Professor at Oxford University,
1878
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Other Jello? Technologies
Purpose Mission
While theoritically and technically television
may be feasible, commercially and financially I
consider it an impossibility, a development of
which we need waste little time dreaming.

• Telephone
• Electric Light
• Television

Lee DeForest, American Radio Pioneer, 1926
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BOM Working SessionWhy Are We Here?
Purpose Mission

• Capture
• Experiences
• Needs
• Ideas
• Recommendations

• Discuss
• Component Technology
• building, using and maintaining Base Object
  Models
• potential application and impact of BOMs in
• military simulations,
• advanced distance learning, and
• commercial markets.

SISOs interest is to explore methods
that support and promote reuse of simulation
components encourage agile, rapid, and efficent
development and maintenance of FOMs.
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Carpe Diem!
Purpose Mission
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Ways To Get Involved
Purpose Mission

• BOM Reflector (SISO-SG-BOM)
• 84 Subscribers
• White Papers
• Practical Experiences
• Innovative Ideas
• Abstracts Due 05 Nov 2001
• SIW BOM Working Sessions
• More Pilot Projects

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Lets Get Started!
Purpose Mission