State of Simulation Interoperability and HLA Federation Development

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State of Simulation Interoperability(and HLA
Federation Development)

• Paul Gustavson

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HLA Federation DevelopmentExperiences
State of Simulation Interoperability

• What were some of the issues you faced?
• What are some of the key lessons learned from
  that experience?
• What has kept some of you from developing an HLA
  federation?
• What are the major HLA efforts on the way?

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FOM Development -Is It Where it Should Be?
State of Simulation Interoperability

• How many FOMs are out there today?

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I think there will be 3,4 maybe 5 FOMs that we
will ever see in use in this community. Thats
it!
State of Simulation Interoperability

• Warren Katz,
• RFOM SG Outbrief,
• Spring SIW 1998

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I think there is a world market for about five
computers.
State of Simulation Interoperability

• Thomas Watson,
• chairman of the board of IBM,
• 1943

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640K out to be enough for anybody.
State of Simulation Interoperability

• Bill Gates,
• 1981

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FOM Development -Is It Where it Should Be?
State of Simulation Interoperability

• How many FOMs are out there today?
• How come there are not more?

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State of Simulation Interoperability
What is our long term interest?

• DoD MS Master Plan
• Establish a common high-level simulation
  architecture to facilitate the interoperability
  of all types of models and simulations among
  themselves and with C4I systems, as well as to
  facilitate the reuse of MS components

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What is our long term interest?
State of Simulation Interoperability
AMG42

• Interoperability and Reuse of M S components
• Standards compliance and maintenance
• RTI Verification
• Federate Certification
• Specification Interpretations
• Resource Repositories and DIFs

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State of Simulation Interoperability
What is our long term interest?

• DoD MS Vision
• ...common use of these environments will
  promote a closer interaction between the
  operations and acquisition communities in
  carrying out their respective responsibilities.
• To allow maximum utility and flexibility, these
  modeling and simulation environments will be
  constructed from affordable, reusable components
  interoperating through an open systems
  architecture.

Are We There Yet?