ARMY SIMULATIONS JUST DON'T CUT THE MUSTARD
Army modernization cannot wait 10 to 15 years.
to this new paradigm. To move more quickly while new simu- lation frameworks are explored and tested for MSAAS, AMSO and AGC are partnering to establish an M&S enterprise skunk- works with a web-enabled interface to facilitate the introduction of new M&S services with existing simulations.
SIMULATION TO SUSTAIN READINESS
Rather than relying on simulations that provide all the required functionality, but are slower and more expensive to modify, MSAAS tools can be tailored for a specific use case. Capt. Balazs Bene reviews a simulated plume model during Vibrant Response 20 Lite. (Photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Michael H. Lehman, U.S. Navy)
For more information on MSAAS go to:
https://csiac.org/ articles/a-new-reality-modelling-simulation-as-a-service/ or
https://nmsg.sto.nato.int/themes/msaas, or read https://
apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/AD1076559.pdf.
The framework provides the ability to model the capa- bilities of the participants and to control the interaction of the participants as they move through space and time. Te resulting simulations can be:
• Constructive and non-interactive (the user invokes the simu- lation, which then runs without further interaction), or interactive (the user or other simulation controls some aspects of the simulation).
• Non-real-time (faster or slower depending on the fidelity of the platform component models), or real-time (constrained by some multiple of a real-time clock).
• Event-stepped (simulations proceed according to processing of relevant events) or time-stepped (simulations proceed accord- ing to events occurring in succeeding time steps).
CONCLUSION Modifying Army simulations for the rapidly changing operational environment and Army modernization focus areas are proving too slow and costly. Terefore, a new approach to composing simulation environments and scenarios is required. Te emer- gence and promise of MSAAS necessitates migrating simulations
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CHARLES SANDERS, Ph.D., Trideum Corporation, is a simulation systems architect for AMSO with more than 30 years of experience in M&S, organizational development, strategic policy and planning, training and learning concepts. He has provided technology innovation advice to Office of Secretary of Defense, Joint Chiefs of Staff, U.S. Navy Staff, Joint Forces Command and other executive-level government and industry organizations. He also led studies of emerging technologies for the M&S community, including cloud-based simulation and development of a persistent simulation test bed for coalition experimentation. He previously provided strategy and plans support for the initiation and development of the DOD Training Transformation program and DOD Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative. He holds a Ph.D. in organizational development with a focus on innovation from Regent University, an M.S. in information systems management from Syracuse University, and a B.S. in chemistry from Te Catholic University of America. He is certified as a Navy nuclear propulsion engineer.
GENE DAVIS serves as AMSO’s data standards and acquisition officer. Ongoing projects are AMSO’s M&S force structure efforts (Army Organization Server, U.S. Forces integration and migration to the Global Forces Information Management environment, and M&S real world threat representation). He has over 15 years of experience in M&S, live-virtual-constructive integration and event support, and leading technology innovations regarding M&S data ingestion, with experience stemming from the Army National Simulation Center, U.S. Joint Forces Command J7, Joint Staff J7, and the Defense Modeling and Simulation Coordination Office. He holds a B.S. in pre-law and criminal justice from Seton Hall University.
Army AL&T Magazine
Summer 2022
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