TENA: Integration with Existing Simulation Interoperability Standards

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TENA Integration with Existing Simulation
Interoperability Standards

• Katherine L. Morse, Ph.D.
• SAIC

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Current Simulation Environments

• Does your simulation environment use a single
  solution, or is it a mixed architecture?
• What drove you to this solution?
• Legacy systems?
• Customer stated requirement?
• Best technical solution?
• Cost?
• Does it meet your technical, financial, and
  programmatic needs?
• Which of these is most important to your program?
• If you were in charge of the universe, would you
  choose this solution?
• If so, why?
• If not, why not?

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Business Model(s)

• What business model do you currently use for
  acquiring your simulation interoperability
  solution?
• GFE
• Commercial
• In-house
• Did you have a choice in business model?
• If so, why did you choose it?
• If not, how would you choose to change it?
• Consider all the impacts of such a change.
  Remember nothing is truly free.

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Plans Going Forward

• Do you have plans in the future to change
  technical solutions, e.g. move to IEEE 1516 or to
  TENA?
• If so, why?
• If not, why not?
• If the answer is cost, be honest about the true
  costs
• Would you support transition to a new
  architecture if it
• Enabled integration of HLA and TENA functionality
  without gateways?
• Were provided free as GFE?
• What if it werent quite free?
• Came with source code (or open source)?
• What if you didnt have access to the source
  code?
• Is an HLA-TENA interoperability wire protocol
  technically feasible?
• For just the core functionality?

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My Position

• Mixed architectures are the current reality
• We spend a lot of time and money repeatedly
  solving the same integration problems
• If the MS community wants a solution that meets
  its technical, financial, and programmatic needs,
  it must make those needs know
• And be honest with itself about what those needs
  are
• A study group to identify those needs would be a
  good first step
• I offer the preceding questions as input

My personal opinion, not necessarily SAICs