Forces Modeling and Simulation C4I Overview

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Forces Modeling and Simulation / C4I Overview

• Dr. Dave Pratt, SAIC
• FMS FAPOC
• Christina Bouwens, SAIC
• FMS Onsite at ASC

FMS/IMT Colloquium 17 MAR 2009
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FMS/C4I Functional Area

• SOW Section 1.2.2 - FORCES MODELING AND
  SIMULATION / COMMAND, CONTROL, COMMUNICATIONS,
  COMPUTERS AND INTELLIGENCE (FMS/C4I)
• FMS/C4I integrates high-speed C4I systems to
  manage a battle space provides large-scale
  simulations of complex military engagements to
  facilitate mission rehearsal/training, mission
  planning, and post-mission analysis and advances
  digital library technology for support of FMS/C4I
  research and development activities. Uses span
  the design, development, test, evaluation, and
  deployment of a variety of warfighting and
  training systems.

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The New Official FMS Description

• The Forces Modeling and Simulation (FMS) CTA
  focuses on the research and development of
  HPC-based physical, logical, and behavioral
  models and simulations of battlespace
  phenomenology in the correlation of forces. These
  simulations are applied to experimentation,
  training, operational planning, mission
  rehearsal, system analysis, and acquisition. The
  acquisition domain includes research and
  development, test and evaluation, and production
  and logistics. The FMS CTA also includes the
  modeling of C4I systems that impact military
  decision making in war and operations other than
  war. For example, FMS simulations model the
  interrelationships and impact on military
  operations by phenomena such as the physics of
  tactical radio propagation, the logical
  characteristics of network routing algorithms in
  a lossy environment, and the behavior of
  networked combat leaders under conditions of
  uncertainty. A variety of techniques are
  employed, including parallel discrete event
  simulation, evolutionary methods, and agent-based
  simulations that exploit the power of HPC.

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Overview

• Definition of the relevant FMS community
• We are interested primarily on the those codes
  that model complete things and are focused on the
  effects on the tradeoffs and employments as they
  reflect in tactical and strategic outcomes.
• Objectives
• To leverage the experience and techniques
  developed by the HPC community to improve the FMS
  support to the operational warfighter.
• Leverage the experience and techniques developed
  by the HPC community to enhance holistic M v. N
  codes and increase their relevance and
  responsiveness to the warfighter
• Conduct FMS relevant research and transition the
  technologies to operational uses.

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Strategic Goals for FMS

• Top priorities
• To leverage the experience techniques developed
  by the HPC community to improve FMS support to
  the operational warfighter
• To make the HPC the platform of choice for FMS
• Concentrate on
• Addressing critical user needs
• Portability, scalability, responsiveness
• Strong operational user focus involvement
• Demonstration based results
• Cross functional area projects

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FMS Summary

• Non-traditional users with non-traditional
  requirements
• Progress with FMS user base
• Pre- and post-processing applications
• Utilization of HPCMP resources for operational
  experiments and exercises
• Operational DoD organizations
• Training
• Acquisition
• Making inroads with the operational and ST FMS
  communities

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Acknowledgement

• This publication was made possible through
  support provided by DoD HPCMP PET activities
  through Mississippi State University under
  contract number GS04T01BFC0060. The opinions
  expressed herein are those of the author(s) and
  do not necessarily reflect the views of the DoD
  or Mississippi State University.