NATO Interoperability and Reuse Study

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NATO/PfP HLA Federation of VTOL Operations
Supporting Simulation Based Acquisition
Richard Reading NIREUS International Project
Team Leader Sally White NIREUS International
Project Team Deputy 26 June 2001
NATO Interoperability and Reuse Study
N I R E U S
2001 European Simulation Interoperability Workshop
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BACKGROUND

• NATO Specialist Team on Simulation Based Design
  and Virtual Prototyping (ST-SBDVP)
• Explore and share information about the benefits,
  risks, and costs of investing in and using
  ST-SBDVP technologies, nationally and NATO-wide
• Scope
• Acquisition of naval surface warships, primarily
  for the early stages of design
• Hull, mechanical, and electrical systems
• Interfaces with payloads, e.g., aircraft, weapons

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COOPERATIVE SIMULATION VIRTUAL PROTOTYPING IN
SHIP DESIGN
Track 1 ANEP 61 Study to December 2000
Track 2 NIREUS Study to September 2001
Track 3 NIAG 60 Study to June 2000

• Australia
• Bulgaria
• Canada
• Finland
• France
• Germany
• Italy
• Netherlands
• Norway
• Spain
• Sweden
• United Kingdom (Chair)
• United States

• Australia
• Bulgaria
• Finland
• France
• Germany
• Italy
• Spain
• Sweden
• United Kingdom
• United States (IPT leader)

• Bulgaria
• Canada
• Czech Republic
• Finland
• France
• Germany (Chair)
• Italy
• Netherlands
• Norway
• Spain
• Sweden
• Turkey
• United Kingdom
• United States

NIREUS involves the practical application of HLA
to an SBDVP problem
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2001 NIREUS SCENARIO AIR VEHICLE LANDINGS ON
SHIPS
NIREUS-0501-4
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NIREUS ORGANIZATION
V-G043.psd
NIREUS-0501-5
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NIREUS PARTICIPATION
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FEDERATION DESIGN
Ship Motion
Air Vehicle
Approach/Landing Algorithm
Management Federate
Tracking Sensors
Ship INS
Air Effects Services
Run Time Infrastructure
Touchdown Dynamics
Data Collection Tool
Ship Motion Forward Prediction (Mode 0)
Visualization
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2001 DEMO CONFIGURATIONWITH CO-HOSTED FEDERATES
Brussels
WAN
LAN
Toulon, France
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KEY INTEGRATION DATES

• October 2000 - federate development starts
• November 2000 - HLA training
• December 2000 - SESG review of and commitment to
  national contributions
• January 2001 - test harness available
• February 2001 - federate testing starts
• April 2001 - federation integration starts
• August 2001 - federation execution starts
• September 2001 - federation demonstration to SESG
• October 2001 federation demonstration to NG6

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FEDERATION DEVELOPMENTA MIX OF PLAYERS

• Executives and Simulation Sponsors
• Requirements matrix
• Systems Experts
• Cross-domain
• Data, models, analysis
• Simulation Experts
• System simulation experts
• Distributed/federated simulation experts

Each is both provider and user
NIREUS adds the further category of
multi-national membership
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PROCESS GUIDANCE THE HLA FEDEP

• Define objectives
• fidelity, data required, limits on MS, limits on
  cost
• Develop Scenario Conceptual Model
• federated view of the world
• Design Federation
• functional allocation, legacy vs. new simulations
• Develop Federation
• Data collection/storage methods, coordinate
  systems

Spirals of negotiation
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SYNERGISTIC CONCURRENT DEVELOPMENTS
The cultural technical developments are
catalysts for one another
NIREUS-0501-12
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Discovery Process

• Cross-domain communication yields common
  strengths and needs
• Ship motion representation
• Sensor representation
• Landing process controller
• Ship motion forward prediction
• Consistency interdependency issues
• Natural environment representation
• Coupled air wake effects

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INTEROPERABILITY LAYERS

• Simulation interoperability
• Cross-domain expertise collaboration
• Multi-nation collaboration
• Joint Allied military operations

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RE-USE LAYERS

• FEDEP products Conceptual Model, Federation
  Design, FOM, etc.
• Developed federates
• HLA development experience
• Multi-nation simulation interoperability
  experience

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RE-USE EXAMPLES

• Re-used components for federation construction,
  including
• Australian Virtual Ship Program VSEM
• French software for landing algorithm, touchdown
  dynamics
• Commercial tools for data collection,
  visualization
• Data plugs by multiple nations
• Federate plugs by Sweden, U.K.
• FOM and Air Effects Services Federate design
  re-used by Joint U.S./U.K. Distributed Simulation
  (JUDS)

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SOME IMPLICATIONS FOR SBA COLLABORATIONS

• Early process phases contain critical agreements
• perspectives shift, re-learning takes hold
• may be frustrating and slow, but well worth the
  effort
• Good balance between systems experts and
  simulation experts seems to aid success

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SUMMARY

• NG/6 ST-SBDVP is raising the level of awareness
  of the benefits, costs, and risks of MS for
  surface ship systems acquisition
• NIREUS is developing an HLA federation to
• demonstrate multi-nation collaboration and
  interoperability
• enable simulation re-use by all national
  participants
• make a contribution to an important military
  operation