ARMY SIMULATIONS JUST DON'T CUT THE MUSTARD


THE HOLLYWOOD TOUCH


MSAAS is intended to promote discovery, reusability and composability of M&S services by one key aspect: The use of modularized simulations. Westefx, a Hollywood special effects company, and a team of Idaho Army National Guardsmen transform an M1097 HMMWV into a T-72 Main Battle Tank using a visual modification kit. (Photo courtesy of the Idaho National Guard)


Figure 2). Te web-enabled interface will facilitate a service- oriented architecture that provides data sharing between the simulation and each service to provide the desired additional modeling or effect.


Te Army Modeling and Simulation Office (AMSO) and the Army Geospatial Center (AGC) are cooperating to establish a rapid integrating environment called M&S Skunkworks, to support integration of M&S services already developed into a persistent simulation framework to test integration of new or updated services as they emerge from both government and indus- try partners with existing simulations.


Te integration environment will include a cloud-enabled inter- face called Bifrost that permits simulations to share simulation state using modern commercial approaches and technology under an Army enterprise license. Bifrost will facilitate integrating M&S services as they develop into an ecosystem of current simulations, with access to cloud services for testing before employment in


a live cloud service provider. Bifrost’s web-enabled user inter- face can be used to control multiple sources of simulated entities (simulation agnostic), providing a common single user interface across multiple simulations.


NEED FOR A UNIFIED SIMULATION FRAMEWORK An ideal scenario for developing future M&S capabilities would be a common modeling framework, in which newly developed technologies and tools from industry, academia and DOD labo- ratories can be integrated and tested, and then retain those technologies and tools in a persistent distributed modeling envi- ronment. AMSO views this approach as similar to the Apple App Store architecture, where applications are built to work on the Apple Mac operating system through specified interfaces. A new sharable synthetic environment can be developed gradually on an established common technical foundation. Te advantage of this approach is that this new synthetic environment would provide needed capabilities faster as each tool or software is developed and


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