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Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization

2006 Executive Committee (EXCOM) Members

Severinghaus, Rick (2008) Chair [email protected] Sharp, Richard (2008) Vice Chair [email protected] O’Connor, Michael (2006) Secretary [email protected] Bevan, Shel (2007) [email protected] Ballard, Cynthia (A) [email protected] Goad, Ken (A) [email protected] Knight, Sam (2007) [email protected] Mattson, Anders (2007) [email protected] Rouget, Chris (X) SAC Chair [email protected] Shanks, Graham (2008) [email protected] Tolk, Andreas (2006) [email protected] Waite, Bill (2006) [email protected] Weber, Ralph (X) CC Chair [email protected]

2006 Conference Committee (CC) Members Weber, Ralph (2006) Chair [email protected] Mullins, Tom (2006) Vice Chair [email protected] Lutz, Robert (2006) Secretary [email protected] Beeker, Emmet (2007) [email protected] Cohen, Charles (2007) [email protected] Graffagnini, Jean (2007) [email protected] Hamilton, Drew (A) [email protected] Hardy, Sharon (2006) [email protected] Little, Reed (2006) [email protected] Morse, Katherine L. (X) SAC Vice Chair [email protected] Swan, Peter (2007) [email protected] Tegnér, Jan (2007) [email protected] Wiehagen, Gene (A) [email protected] SISO Executive Director Conference/Workshop Activities Duncan Miller [email protected] (A) = Appointed Committee member (X) = Ex-officio member of committee (term expires each fall)

SISO, Inc. Executive Committee

“EXCOM”

Standards Activity Committee

“SAC”

Conference Committee

“CC”

Support Staff

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2006 Standards Activity Committee (SAC) Members Rouget, Chris (2007) Chair [email protected] Morse, Katherine L. (2006) Vice Chair [email protected] McCall, James (Mark) (2007) Secretary [email protected] Bachman, Jane (2007) [email protected] Gravitz, Peggy (A) [email protected] Hansen, Scott (2006) [email protected] Igarza, Jean-Louis (2006) [email protected] Kogler, Jim (2007) [email protected] McKeeby, Dave (2006) [email protected] Montgomery, James (2006) [email protected] Mullins, Tom (X) CC Vice Chair [email protected] Reed, JR (2007) [email protected]

SISO Inc. – Board of Directors O’Connor, Michael Chairman [email protected] Knight, Sam President [email protected] Katz , Warren Vice President [email protected] Swan, Pete Secretary [email protected] Griffin, Allison Treasurer [email protected]

Mailing Address: SISO, Inc. P.O. Box 781238 Orlando, Florida USA 32878-1238

(A) = Appointed Committee member (X) = Ex-officio member of committee (term expires each fall) Note: The term expiration dates are in parenthesis following each member’s name. The terms of appointed members and ex-officio members expire each Fall.

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2006 Spring Simulation Interoperability Workshop

USER COMMUNITY FORUMS ANL Analysis Forum RD&E Research, Development and Engineering Forum SAPD System Acquisition and Product Development Forum T&E Test and Evaluation Forum TRAIN Training Forum SPECIALTY AREA FORUMS APPLICATIONS TRACK LOG Logistics and Enterprise Models Forum VWS Vehicle Weapon Systems Modeling Forum DISTRIBUTED SIMULATION DEVELOPMENT TRACK DSPT Distributed Simulation Process and Tools Forum SMS-COMPOSE Synthetic Mission Space Composability Forum VV&A Verification, Validation & Accreditation Forum

C4ISR TRACK C2/MS Command & Control/Modeling & Simulation Services Forum IO-ISR Information Operations – Intelligence, Surveillance & Reconnaissance Forum

ENVIRONMENT TRACK SNE/SENS Simulated Natural Environment/Sensor Modeling Forum

INFRASTRUCTURE TRACK CFI Communication, Frameworks, and Infrastructure Forum SPACE TRACK SPACE Space Community Forum

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TRACK MANAGER ASSIGNMENTS Emmet Beeker User Community Track Manager

Charles Cohen Exhibitor Track Manager Jean Graffagnini Applications Track Manager

Reed Little Theme Manager Bob Lutz Distributed Simulation Development Track Manager, Infrastructure Track

Manager, CC Secretary Duncan Miller Executive Director, Conference/Workshop Activities Katherine L. Morse SAC Vice Chair (IEEE CS SAB liaison) Tom Mullins CC Vice Chair, C4ISR Track Manager, SISO Web QA,

Speaker Committee Chair Peter Swan Environment Track Manager Ralph Weber CC Chair, Theme Chair, Space Community Track Manager

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STUDY GROUPS C-BML Coalition Battle Management Language Study Group

DEVS Discrete-Event Systems Specification Study Group

GM-V&V Generic Methodology for VV&A for the Modeling & Simulation Domain (GM V&V) Study Group

HPRP HLA Performance Recommended Practice Study Group

MSDL Military Scenario Definition Language Study Group

MODE 5/S IFF Mode 5/Mode S Identification Friend or Foe Study Group

SCORM-SIM SCORM-Simulation Interface Standards Study Group SCM Simulation Conceptual Modeling Study Group

TC Transfer of Control Study Group STANDING STUDY GROUPS CIGI Common Image Generator Interface Standing Study Group

DIS Distributed Interactive Simulation Standing Study Group

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PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT GROUPS BOM Base Object Model Specification Product Development Group

CMSD Core Manufacturing Simulation Data Product Development Group

CSPI COTS Simulation Package Interoperability Product Development Group

DIS Distributed Interactive Simulation Product Development Group

EDCS Environment Data Coding Specification Product Development Group

HLA-Evolved High Level Architecture (HLA) – Evolved Product Development Group

Link 11 A/B Link 11 A/B Simulation Standard Product Development Group

LINK-16 Link-16 Simulation Standard Product Development Group

RPR FOM Real-Time Platform Reference Federation Object Model Product Development Group

SRML Simulation Reference Markup Language Product Development Group

VV&A Verification, Validation & Accreditation Overlay to Federation Development Product Development Group STANDARDS ORGANIZATION LIAISONS ◆Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers - Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS) - High Level Architecture (HLA) Dr. Katherine L. Morse ◆International Organization for Standardization - Spatial Reference Model (SRM) - Environmental Data Coding Specification EDCS) Chris Rouget ◆North-Atlantic Treaty Organization

- Coordination continues through the NATO M&S Working Group for official NATO recognition of SISO as an accredited Standards Development Organization

Dr. Jean-Louis Igarza

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SIMULATION INTEROPERABILITY WORKSHOP (SIW) FORUMS

USER COMMUNITY FORUMS Track Manager – Emmet Beeker – [email protected]

Analysis (ANL) Forum

2006 Spring/Fall - ANL Planning & Review Panel Chair: Cam Tran SPAWARSYSCEN SAN DIEGO [email protected] Vice Chair: Emmet Beeker The MITRE Corporation [email protected] Secretary: John Fay Jacobs Sverdrup [email protected] Wayne Lindo AT&T Government Solutions [email protected] Virginia ‘Ginger’ Mullins Sverdrup Technology [email protected] Major John Willis TRADOC Analysis Center [email protected] Robert Ferro SPAWARSYSCEN SAN DIEGO [email protected] The Analysis (ANL) forum focuses on interoperability issues and uses of distributed models and simulations by the analysis community, including issues of experiment design and data analysis, analysis issues in Advanced Distributed Simulation (ADS) and Simulation Based Acquisition (SBA), requirements definition. Special focus: use cases that include both success and failure. Test and Evaluation (T&E) Forum

2006 Spring/Fall - T&E Planning & Review Panel Chair: Geoff Sauerborn US Army Research Lab [email protected] Vice Chair: Arman Tchoubineh NAVAIR, NAVY [email protected] Secretary: Sharon Hardy Computer Sciences Corp. [email protected] Mike Charnoky Harris Corp. [email protected] Vacancy The Test & Evaluation (T&E) forum addresses uses of distributed simulation in test and evaluation (T&E), including the integration of live entities with virtual and constructive simulations; the integration of hardware-in-the-loop (HWIL), Integrated Systems Test Facilities (ISTFs), and other T&E facilities with distributed simulations; the use of simulation to test and evaluate C4ISR, Systems of Systems (SoS), Family of Systems (FoS), and interoperability; and performance issues in using distributed simulation in T&E applications.

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USER COMMUNITY FORUMS (Cont’d) Track Manager – Emmet Beeker – [email protected]

Research, Development & Engineering (RD&E) Forum

2006 Spring/Fall - RD&E Planning & Review Panel Chair: Cynthia Ballard JSF PO (ASC-YJ) [email protected] Vice Chair: Doug Wood MäK Technologies [email protected] Secretary: John Fay Jacobs Sverdrup [email protected] Mary Christopher CACI Technologies [email protected] Charles Cohen Cybernet Systems Corp. [email protected] Michelle Herman Computer Sciences Corp. [email protected] Max Lorenzo US Army Developmental [email protected] Test Command HQ Thom McLean Georgia Tech [email protected] Trevor Pearce Carleton University [email protected] The Research, Development & Engineering (RD&E) forum addresses issues and applications of distributed M&S within the RDE domain, including requirements for backward compatibility between simulations and distributed simulation infrastructures. RDE focuses on community requirements and experiences with new applications using distributed computing technologies. RDE specifically solicits papers that advance the "state of the art" and/or take a position, however controversial. Authors targeting papers to the RDE Forum must include, as the final slide in their presentations, a summary of the paper's key findings or concepts and identifying issues for the RDE Community. System Acquisition and Product Development (SAPD) Forum

2006 Spring/Fall - SAPD Planning & Review Panel Chair: James Coolahan Johns Hopkins University/APL [email protected] Vice Chair: Tim Jahren Raytheon Company [email protected] Secretary: Kenneth “Crash” Konwin Booz Allen Hamilton [email protected] Judith Dahmann The MITRE Corp. [email protected] Jim Hollenbach Simulation Strategies, Inc. [email protected] Tommy Nordqvist Front End AB [email protected] Simon J E Taylor Brunel University [email protected] The System Acquisition and Product Development (SAPD) forum focuses on M&S and related enablers of integrated, collaborative enterprises for system/product development, particularly from a life-cycle wide, mission capability/system-of-systems perspective. Subjects include policy, processes, tool suite strategies, information management, standards, resource sharing/reuse, business case, intellectual property protection, collaboration/optimization means and work force implications. Priority is on actual, broadly-applicable experiences in these areas.

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USER COMMUNITY FORUMS (CONT’D) Track Manager – Emmet Beeker – [email protected]

Training (TRAIN) Forum

2006 Spring/Fall - TRAIN Planning & Review Panel Chair: Scott Johnston CACI, Inc. [email protected] Vice Chair: Garry Morissette MäK Technologies [email protected] Secretary: Michael D. Woodman PMTRASYS, MARCORSYSCOM [email protected] Robert Chapman Alion [email protected] Orris Hambleton SeiCorp, Inc. [email protected] Mike Niven QinetiQ [email protected] Sherry Steward DEI Services Corporation [email protected] Eugene Stoudenmire BMH Associates, Inc [email protected] The TRAIN forum focuses on issues associated with using simulations to support the acquisition of knowledge, skills, behaviors, and attitudes through education, training, and performance support. We solicit papers addressing simulation-based learning in industry, academia, and government (including the DOD), particularly those identifying interoperability or standards shortfalls or requirements. Special interest topics: (1) simulation support of all aspects of Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) and Distributed Mission Operations (DMO) programs: education, training, and performance support (e.g., embedded training, Computer-Based Training, automated performance assessment, mission rehearsal, Course of Action analysis, etc.); (2) simulation support to training events associated with Small Scale Contingencies (SSCs), Military Operations in Urban Terrain (MOUT), Support and Stability Operations (SASO), and other related combat and non-combat activities; (3) single vs multi-player/student training issues or lessons learned (individual vs collective/team simulation-based learning) and; (4) game and game technology support to training events.

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SPECIALTY AREA FORUMS

APPLICATION TRACK Track Manager – Jean Graffagnini – [email protected]

Vehicle/Weapons System Modeling (VWS) Forum

2006 Spring/Fall - VWS Planning & Review Panel Chair: Tim Jahren Raytheon Company [email protected] Vice Chair: Vacancy Secretary: John Fay Jacobs Sverdrup [email protected] Michael Bachmann NASIC [email protected] Vacancy Vacancy The Vehicle/Weapons System (VWS) Modeling forum focuses on lessons learned in development of vehicle or weapon system simulations (including Computer Generated Forces (CGF) and Semi-Automated Forces (SAF) simulations) and Simulation Based Acquisition (SBA) of actual vehicle and weapon systems (DD 21, Joint Strike Fighter, Future Combat System , etc). Logistics and Enterprise Models (LOG) Forum

2006 Spring/Fall - LOG Planning & Review Panel Chair: David Payne The MITRE Corp. [email protected] Vice Chair: Daniel Cerys BBN Technologies [email protected] Secretary: Vacancy Pat Jones US Army Research Lab [email protected] David Prochnow The MITRE Corp. [email protected] Vacancy The Logistics and Enterprise Models (LOG) forum focuses on simulations and simulation challenges associated with modeling supply chains, logistics management processes, logistics policies and business practices, as well as the portrayal of logistics in military simulations at all levels. Topics of interest include innovative approaches to supporting network centric operations, rapid deployment forces, Operations Other Than War (OOTW), global commercial operations, and enterprise process simulations. The latter include but are not limited to executable models of work flow, manufacturing, distribution, transportation and customer, patient, crowd, or traffic flow.

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SPECIALTY AREA FORUMS (CONT’D)

COMMAND, CONTROL, COMMUNICATIONS, COMPUTERS, INTELLIGENCE, SURVEILLANCE, AND RECONNAISSANCE

(C4ISR) TRACK Track Manager – Tom Mullins – [email protected]

Command & Control/Modeling and Simulation Services (C2/MS)

2006 Spring/Fall – C2/MS Planning & Review Panel Chair: John Daly Booz Allen Hamilton [email protected] Vice Chair: Andreas Tolk VMASC/Old Dominion University [email protected] Secretary: Tom Mullins NAIC/AENR [email protected] Mark Lambert Atlantic Consulting Services [email protected] Dr. Robert McGraw Ram Laboratories, Inc. [email protected] Donald Timian Army Test & Evaluation Command [email protected] Cam Tran SPAWARSYSCEN SAN DIEGO [email protected] Charles Turnitsa VMASC/Old Dominion University [email protected] Leslie Winters HQDA DCS G-3/5/7 AMSO [email protected] The C2/M&S Services Forum addresses standards to ensure interoperability when coupling simulation and C2 systems; standards to ensure composability when integrating simulation components and C2 components into a common framework; and standards to represent C2 systems and the underlying infrastructure within simulation applications. For the Spring 2006 SIW, the C2/M&S Services Forum is looking for papers dealing with: * Network Centric services/Web-Based services * M&S based C2 services for operational, analysis and support purposes * Modeling of communications effects * Metadata/Data Interchange Standards * Use of the Command and Control Information Exchange Data Model (C2IEDM) and/or C2IEDM Extensions * Simulation use in support of Systems Engineering, Test and Evaluation, and Assessment of C2 systems and services * Modeling and Simulation (M&S) Services Development and use in a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) * M&S Community of Interest (COI) activities, as well as related international efforts

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COMMAND, CONTROL, COMMUNICATIONS, COMPUTERS, INTELLIGENCE, SURVEILLANCE, AND RECONNAISSANCE

(C4ISR) TRACK Track Manager - Tom Mullins [email protected]

Information Operations Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (IO-ISR) Forum

2006 Spring/Fall - IO-ISR Planning & Review Panel Chair: Tim DiVecchia General Dynamics [email protected] Vice Chair: David Acevedo USAF [email protected] Secretary: Vacancy Forrest Davis Lockheed Martin [email protected] Andrew Duck Army Intelligence Master Plan [email protected] Huat Ng General Dynamics [email protected] Anthony Vernucci General Dynamics [email protected] Vacancy The Information Operations Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (IO-ISR) forum seeks papers that deal with all aspects of Information Operations (IO), including computer network attack and defense, modeling of IO in exercise and training, and threats to the Internet and other communications infrastructures. IO-ISR seeks papers addressing Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) issues including representation of the different intelligence disciplines (e.g., SIGINT, IMINT, HUMINT, etc.) and the associated Tasking, Processing, Exploitation, and Dissemination (TPED) systems and processes associated with the delivery of intelligence products to the warfighter. In addition, we are interested in activities related to modeling IO-ISR, including Effects-Based Operations, Network Centric Warfare, Predictive Battlespace Awareness and crisis response.

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DISTRIBUTED SIMULATION DEVELOPMENT TRACK Track Manager - Robert Lutz - [email protected]

Distributed Simulation Process and Tools (DSPT) Forum

2006 Spring/Fall - DSPT Planning & Review Panel Chair: Jake Borah AEgis Technologies Group [email protected] Vice Chair: Jane Bachman NSWCDD TEAMS [email protected] Secretary: Pierre Gauvin CFEC/SECO [email protected] Joey Fann Dynetics, Inc. [email protected] Robert Lutz Johns Hopkins University/APL [email protected] Richard Reading VisiTech Ltd. [email protected] Sarah Trbovich VisiTech, Ltd. [email protected] The Distributed Simulation Process and Tools (DSPT) forum focuses on evolving a generalized system engineering process for developing and executing distributed simulations, and on the tools used for automating various aspects of distributed simulations. This includes "lessons learned" solutions from creating real-world, useful M&S applications, such as problems of integration, scalability, reuse, and robustness. Automation of various aspects of distributed simulations includes scenario development, initialization, monitoring, runtime controls, collection and repositories, visualization, and after-action review.

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Synthetic Mission Space Composability (SMS COMPOSE)Forum

2006 Spring/Fall - SMS Planning & Review Panel Chair: Randy Saunders JHU/APL [email protected] Vice Chair: Vacancy Secretary: Cam Tran SPAWARSYSCEN SAN DIEGO [email protected] Shon Vick JHU/APL [email protected] William Zimmerman NAVSEA [email protected] Vacancy The Synthetic Mission Space Composability (SMS COMPOSE) forum focuses on efforts underway within the Services and across the Joint and International community. The objective of this forum is to explore ways to integrate various environments on-demand, so that the best tools and products available are brought to bear on a particular problem.

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Verification, Validation & Accreditation (VV&A) Forum

2006 Spring/Fall - VV&A Planning & Review Panel Chair: Simone Youngblood DMSO [email protected] Vice Chair: Susan Solick TRADOC Analysis Center [email protected] Secretary: Vacancy Michael Bell US Army [email protected] Dirk Brade FOI [email protected] Jennifer Chew DTC/Army [email protected] Mike Lightner AEgis Technologies [email protected] Michael Metz IMC [email protected] The Verification, Validation and Accreditation (VV&A) forum focuses on methodologies, procedures, and associated techniques used to establish credibility of models, simulations, and federations. VV&A goals emphasize quality (e.g., building in authoritative representations and behaviors) and risk management, and support development and evolution of VV&A guidance to enhance the federation lifecycle process. Current objectives include evolving a model for validation process maturity, formalizing the conceptual model via the Conceptual Model Study Group, and establishing recommended practices for federation VV&A via the VV&A PDG. Special focus areas include validation process maturity model, conceptual model validation, and substantive interoperability.

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ENVIRONMENT TRACK Track Manager - Peter Swan - [email protected]

Simulated Natural Environment/Sensor Modeling (SNE/SENS) Forum

2006 Spring/Fall - SNE/SENS Planning & Review Panel Chair: Virginia Dobey SAIC [email protected] Vice Chair: Fred Newman Johns Hopkins University/APL [email protected] Secretary: Carolynne Huether The Boeing Company [email protected] Albert Biondo Johns Hopkins University/APL [email protected] Peter Eirich Johns Hopkins University/APL [email protected] Annette Janett Filer Geo-Spatial Technologies Inc. [email protected] Michael Mandelberg Johns Hopkins University/APL [email protected] Ronald Moore SAIC [email protected] Christopher Scannell Naval Research Laboratory [email protected] The SNE addresses multi-domain use and reuse of digital representations and models of the natural environment, including land, oceanic, atmospheric, and space data. SNE also focuses on standards for, and application of, SNE data, effects and data models for M&S; interoperability issues and lessons learned in large-scale integrated simulations that include multiple real-time and non-real-time SNE representations; and issues and use cases relating to SEDRIS, environmental data classification systems, and coordinate transformation systems. Sensor Modeling (SENS) serves as a bridge between environmental and mission/system-related areas, focusing on issues of interoperability, fidelity, and correlation for sensor simulations.

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INFRASTRUCTURE TRACK Track Manager – Robert Lutz – [email protected]

Communication, Frameworks, and Infrastructure (CFI) Forum

2006 Spring/Fall - CFI Planning & Review Panel Chair: Dr. Trevor Pearce Carleton University [email protected] Vice Chair: Steven Boswell BBN Technologies [email protected] Secretary: Vacancy John Fay Jacobs Sverdrup [email protected] Edward Gordon General Dynamics-AIS [email protected] Thom McLean Georgia Tech [email protected] Katherine L. Morse SAIC [email protected] Michael O’Connor ITT Industries [email protected] The Communication, Frameworks, and Infrastructure (CFI) forum focuses on technologies that support interoperation and run-time execution of distributed simulations. Historical examples include the HLA Run-Time Infrastructure (RTI), DIS, ALSP, and SPEEDES. The Forum will also consider new and alternate infrastructure concepts, such as web-based technologies. Topics include performance data, implementation and design details, usage strategies, networking techniques, fault tolerance, security considerations, and middleware or other frameworks for constructing, utilizing, or extending simulation infrastructure.

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SPACE COMMUNITY TRACK Track Manager – Ralph Weber – [email protected]

Space Community (SPACE) Forum

2006 Spring/Fall – SPACE Planning & Review Panel Chair: Priscilla Elfrey NASA [email protected] Vice Chair: Bob Gravitz Aegis Technologies Group [email protected] The Space forum is being developed to facilitate efforts to move off the planet. The SISO Space Forum will, in particular, elicit practical suggestions for bridging NASA/KSC advanced visualization simulation for operations and the MS&T community. Panelists will address life cycle simulation issues – design, assembly, integration, test, check-out, launch, landing, recovery and refurbishment—for space exploration.

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STUDY GROUPS Study Groups (SGs) are chartered when SISO wants to obtain recommendations on well-defined issues from groups of volunteer experts selected from appropriate Forums. Study Group sessions at this Workshop include: Coalition Battle Management Language (C-BML) SG Co-Chair: MAJ Kevin Galvin DEC(GM)/QinetiQ [email protected] Co-Chair: Michael Hieb Alion S&T/GMU [email protected] Vice Chair: Andreas Tolk VMASC/Old Dominion Univ. [email protected] Secretary: Charles Turnitsa VMASC/Old Dominion Univ. [email protected] Editor-in-Chief: Curtis Blais MOVES Institute/NPS [email protected] Generally, Battle Management Language (BML) is the unambiguous language used to:

● Command and control forces and equipment conducting military operations ● Provide for situational awareness and a shared, common operational picture.

It can be seen as a standard representation of a digitized commander's intent to be used for real troops, for simulated troops, and for future robotic forces. BML is particularly relevant in a network centric environment for enabling mutual understanding. A Coalition BML, as envisioned by this study group in this proposal, developed and applied by the all Services and by coalition members would not only allow interoperability among their C4ISR systems and simulations, but also among themselves. As it is almost impossible to imagine a situation in the future when a single U. S. Service will be unilaterally employed, these efforts must be embedded into international standards. Because future military operations, and a significant amount of training, will be Joint in nature, it is critical that a Joint Service approach be taken to the BML development effort. The same issues that have driven the Army to embark on this program also confront the other Services as they develop both their C4ISR and simulation systems. Discrete-Event Systems Specification (DEVS SG) Chair: Gabriel A. Wainer Carleton University [email protected] Vice Chair: Bernard Zeigler University of Arizona [email protected] Secretary: Hessam Sarjoughian Arizona State University [email protected] DEVS has a theoretical foundation which makes it in principle independent of various programming languages and hardware platforms. There is a wide variety of groups working on extensions to the DEVS formalism, with several modeling tools based on these extensions. The goal of the study group will be to find a core of the DEVS formalism that is suitable for standardization of activities at the level of modeling. It will bridge the gap between existing simulation frameworks and modeling activities using a standard notation. The DEVS SG will study the possibility of developing standards for a computer processable representation of DEVS that supports common understanding, sharing and interoperability of DEVS implementations. Computer processable forms include all forms of simulation and real-time execution as well as various forms of syntactic and semantic analysis.

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STUDY GROUPS (CONT’D)

Generic Methodology for VV&A for the Modeling & Simulation Domain (GM V&V) Study Group Chair: René Jacquart Vice Chair: Vacancy Secretary: Vacancy

Simulations and synthetic environments are becoming more significant in training, defence planning and acquisition. Decisions requiring large investments and even affecting human lives are already based on simulation results. As a consequence, the operational need exists not only to build new, but also to acquire and reuse existing models, simulations, and their components with a certain degree of confidence for the intended use. Unfortunately M&S products tend to get more and more complex, requiring more formal engineering processes, which include formal verification and validation processes. V&V is the “price” for trustworthy M&S products. To solve this issue the GM-V&V SG’s primary objective will be to provide a path into the creation of an internationally accepted VV&A standard complementing the current VV&A PDG efforts (dedicated to an Overlay of the FEDEP) and in consistency with the VV&A PDG efforts and other existing developments. The final objective is to provide the international community with a methodology that not only embraces a wide variety of M&S products but also may provide a future common basis for the simulation community through the GM-V&V product. The GM V&V Study Group will hold its first meeting Wednesday 05 April (from 10:00 to 12:00), during the “International VV&A activities Session” organized by the VV&A Forum (Salon 1A). High Level Architecture Performance Recommended Practice (HPRP) SG Chair: Randy Saunders JHU APL [email protected] Vice Chair: Steve Boswell BBN Technologies [email protected] Secretary: Doug Flournoy MITRE Corp. [email protected] The HLA Performance Recommended Practice (HPRP) Study Group (SG) will conduct an investigation on the best practices for maximizing High Level Architecture (HLA) performance. The issues associated with performance, and performance optimization, have been discussed in numerous SIW papers without the emergence of a widely shared body of knowledge. The HPRP SG will examine how these best practices could be collected and made more available to the community. Among the alternatives are: 1) a SISO balloted Recommended Practice; 2) an interactive web product, probably in the form of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ); 3) an overlay to the FEDEP, analogous to the recently completed V&V overlay.

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Military Scenario Definition Language (MSDL) SG Chair: LTC John Surdu PIO STRI, USARMY [email protected] Vice Chair: Maj Kevin Galvin MOD (UK) [email protected] Secretary: Ken Peplow SAIC [email protected] The Military Scenario Definition Language (MSDL SG) is being developed by OneSAF Objective System program to provide simulations with a mechanism for loading Military Scenarios. As a standard, MSDL is not being developed for simulation alone. The intent is for MSDL to define Military Scenarios that are independent of the application generating or using the scenario. To that end, MSDL is an XML based data interchange format that enables C2 planning applications to exchange the military portions of scenarios with Simulations and other applications. The scope to MSDL is bounded by the situation, defined at one instant in time, combined with the COA about to be taken in context to that situation. The intent is for MSDL to include that information which is either core or common to the situation and course of action of a military scenario. Mode 5 Identification Friend or Foe MODE 5/S IFF SG Chair: Frank Hill SDS International Inc. [email protected] Vice Chair: Vacancy Secretary: Vacancy The Mode 5/S IFF Study Group (SG) is established to support the DoD/Joint service/NATO simulation community effort to develop the necessary changes to allow live, virtual and constructive simulations incorporate Mode 5 IFF and Mode S (Select) IFF that is currently in use in Europe. The key protocols to review will be DIS, HLA, existing Live Range IFF protocols and TENA as these are the most widely used ones when exchanging exercise truth data. The HLA review includes a review of the RPR FOM and selected other FOMs and SOMs that include IFF information.

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SCORM – Simulation Interface Standards SG Chair: Vacancy Vice Chair: Vacancy Secretary: Vacancy

One of the important challenges faced by designers and developers of learning, education and training technology is how to integrate simulation-based learning experiences with SCORM environments. This problem has many aspects, both pedagogical and technical. A clear first step is to enable SCORM content or Runtime Environments to invoke and communicate with simulations in a standardized and interoperable fashion. Such "SCORM-Simulation Interface Standards" will lower the cost of integration, lead to tools that save designers and developers time and money and help simulation vendors develop reusable simulations and components. This Study Group will be joint between SISO and the IEEE Learning Technology Standards Committee (LTSC). Simulation Conceptual Modeling (SCM) SG Chair: Jake Borah AEgis Technologies Group [email protected] Vice Chair: Vacancy Secretary: Vacancy The SCM SG is conducting a preliminary investigation on the use of conceptual modeling in M&S and related information technology domains. The study group will perform exploratory work into the establishment of best practices for simulation conceptual modeling, and establish recommendations for persistent management of the topic within SISO. Transfer of Control (TC) SG Chair: Frank Hill SDS International Inc. [email protected] Vice Chair: Patrick Merlet Sparta [email protected] Secretary: Vacancy At the Fall SIW, the Transfer Control SG Meeting presented a tutorial on transfer ownership for DIS and HLA software developers and users based on the new 1278.1 transfer ownership design. The Transfer Control SG is now turning to supporting implementers and users of transfer ownership using the SISO TC SG Reflector and via phone and email support from TC SG members. We will also be working on an HLA FOM to cover pure HLA transfer ownership issues in the coming months.

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STANDING STUDY GROUPS Standing Study Groups are established to represent a specific community or national group to mature a potential standard, or potentially to provide support to open-source software. Common Image Generator Interface (CIGI) SSG Chair: Ronald G. Moore SAIC [email protected] Vice Chair: Willard B. Phelps Boeing [email protected] Secretary: Michael Butterworth Northrop Grumman [email protected] Information Technology The goal of the Common Image Generator Interface (CIGI) Standing Study Group (SSG) is to evaluate industry and government interest in developing a standard image generator interface. Typically, today's Image Generator (IG) vendors have their own closed, proprietary run-time interfaces. At I/ITSEC'02, Boeing proposed their Open Source Common Image Generator Interface (CIGI) as a run-time interface that could be adopted by the simulation community. Boeing indicated that they would like to see a standards organization adopt CIGI and develop it into a robust and broadly accepted simulation industry image generator run-time interface standard. The SG is discussing this proposal, evaluating alternatives, and generating recommendations and a proposed action plan. Distributed Interoperability Simulation (DIS) SSG Chair: Frank Hill SDS International Inc. [email protected] Vice Chair: Vacancy Secretary: Vacancy The DIS SSG is a new Standing Study Group (SSG) supporting the DIS community by: acting as a forum for DIS discussions; providing technical support to users and developers by answering questions; providing contact information for experts in different areas and maintaining a library of DIS documentation. The DIS SSG is also the place where Problem/Change Requests (PCRs) can be initially submitted or commented on for changing the 1278 series of IEEE DIS Standards. It closely coordinates with the DIS PDG and DIS Enumeration reflectors to ensure that the entire DIS community is kept appraised of DIS developments. Not all DIS users are members of all 3 groups (DIS PDG, DIS ENUM and the DIS SSG) for whatever reason so cross-coordination is essential. The DIS SSG along with the DIS PDG have become the two primary places that people come for DIS information. We have been very responsive to the needs of the DIS community and plan to continue that support.

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PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT GROUPS Product Development Groups (PDGs) are approved to generate specific SISO Products (Standards, Guides, and Reference Products) after approval of a formal Product Nomination. Current Product Development Groups include: Base Object Model Specification (BOM) PDG Chair: Larry Root SimVentions, Inc. [email protected] Vice Chair: Bob Lutz Johns Hopkins Univ/APL [email protected] Secretary: Jane Bachman NSWCDD TEAMS [email protected] The BOM PDG has developed a specification and a guidance document for Base Object Models. This open standardization of BOMs has been essential for establishing component technology to facilitate interoperability, reusability and composability. As part of this standardization effort, the PDG has defined an XML schema to identify the base elements and ontology of a BOM and provided guidance describing how BOMs can be used to generate FOMs and SOMs from BOM compositions. Current efforts include completing the SISO standardization effort – which involves submission and approval of the balloted documents by the SISO SAC and EXCOM, transitioning the PDG from a document development effort to a standards awareness and training effort, making available BOM implementation examples like RPR BOMs. Core Manufacturing Simulation Data (CMSD) PDG Chair: Swee Leong NIST [email protected] Vice Chair: Frank Riddick NIST [email protected] Secretary: Tina Lee NIST [email protected] This product defines a data interface specification for efficient exchange of manufacturing life cycle data in a simulation environment. The specification provides neutral data interfaces for integrating manufacturing software applications with simulation systems. The initial effort is focusing on machine shop data definitions. The plan is to extend the data specification to include supply chain, aerospace assembly operations, automotive vehicle assembly operations, plant layout, and other relevant manufacturing and simulation information. This standard effort is to promote the increased, widespread, and pervasive use of advanced manufacturing technologies, in particular, the simulation technology in the manufacturing industries. The effort will benefit not only the manufacturing industry worldwide, but more specifically it will benefit the Modeling and Simulation community in the near term.

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Commercial Off-the-Shelf Simulation Package Interoperability (CSPI) PDG Chair: Dr. Simon J E Taylor Brunel University [email protected] Vice Chair: Steffen Strassburger Daimler Chrysler [email protected] Secretary: Stephen Turner Technological Univ [email protected] (Singapore) Since 1980 efforts to improve the productivity of simulation modeling in manufacturing have yielded the range of COTS discrete event simulation packages (CSPs) that are used today by engineers and analysts to investigate complex, dynamic process-based systems found in commerce, health, manufacturing and supply chains. It is true that there are many different types of system that might be called COTS packages. However, this work concerns itself with systems that fall under the discrete event simulation paradigm, i.e. simulated models of systems that change state at discrete points in time (scheduled events) or as a result of state changes (conditional events). These state changes typically represent entities (documents, patients, parts, trains, etc.) that pass through networks of queues and workstations (work queuing at a desk in an office, patients waiting to see a doctor, parts buffered for machining, trains waiting at a station, etc.) CSPs support activities such as model building, experimentation, animation, visualization and reporting. There are currently around 20 of these commercially available. It is important to note that the model/CSP technology is a fixed point. Virtually every engineering faculty has some course on simulation modeling that uses one or more CSPs. Engineers and analysts use these CSPs to build and maintain simulation models. These CSPs therefore represent a significant investment. Additionally, users of these CSPs are not software engineers – they are simulation modelers. There is evidence to show that it is highly likely that any major changes to their methodology and technologies will result in the non-adoption of these proposed products. It is therefore a major consideration of our work that any interoperability products that are developed are highly transparent in nature. Distributed Interoperability Simulation (DIS) PDG Chair: Ralph Weber CSC [email protected] Co-Vice Chair: Frank Hill SDS International Inc. [email protected] Secretary: Rob Byers NGC [email protected] The DIS PDG is developing a balloted revision to the IEEE DIS standard 1278.1 and 1278.1a to be designated 1278.1-200X. An incremental approach using a Problem/Change Request (PCR) process along with Tiger teams for specific functional areas are being used to expedite publication of the first revision as there are important changes that need to be made, and balloted on, in the very near term, such as the recommended entity handover changes from the SISO Transfer Control Study Group. We will review the changes that have already been incorporated as of 31 Aug 05 into Draft 0 of 1278-1-200X at this SIW. This draft with the changes to date will be available to DIS PDG members about two weeks prior to the SIW and will be designated Draft 1. The group will also review IEEE 1278.2, IEEE 1278.3, and IEEE 1278.4 prior to 31 December 2005 and recommend update, reaffirmation, or withdrawal of these standards.

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Environment Data Coding Specification (EDCS) PDG Chair: Bob Richbourg IDA [email protected] Vice Chair: Dale Miller Lockheed Martin Simulation, [email protected] Training & Support (LM STS) Secretary: Vacancy The EDCS PDG is a component of the Synthetic Environment Data Representation Interchange Specification (SEDRIS) that provides a data dictionary and coding standard for environmental data used in simulations of terrain, atmosphere, ocean, and space. High Level Architecture (HLA) - Evolved PDG Chair: Roy Scrudder DMSO [email protected] Vice Chair (US): Randy Saunders JHU/APL [email protected] Vice Chair (European): Bjorn Moller Pitch [email protected] Secretary: Katherine L. Morse SAIC [email protected] The IEEE 1516 series of HLA specifications was originally approved by the IEEE Standards Activity (SA) Board in Fall 2000. Since that time, a DoD Interpretations Document for IEEE 1516 and a Dynamic Link Compatible HLA API for IEEE 1516.1 have been in active development. In addition, many new potential HLA requirements have been identified based on feedback from the various domains and application areas that comprise the HLA user community. This PDG seeks to address these requirements via a formal open review of the IEEE 1516 series of specifications. As part of this process, the PDG will incorporate those aspects of the Interpretations Document and Dynamic Link Compatible HLA API that need to become part of the core standard. Link 11 A/B Simulation Standard Network (Link 11 A/B) PDG Chair: Joe Sorroche DMOC/ASRCC [email protected] Vice Chair: Joe Zehnle The Boeing Company [email protected] Secretary: Rob Byers Northrop Grumman [email protected] This product will be a SISO standard to define the methods to simulate a Link-11 A/B Network within a Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS) or High Level Architecture (HLA) framework. This standard will have two parts, one that will describe extensions to the DIS standard and the second will detail a Base Object Model (BOM) to extend Federate Object Models (FOM) operating in the HLA framework. The standard shall detail implementation and usage methodologies in DIS and HLA as well as defining the data structures. This standard shall not contradict any part of the IEEE 1278.1 or IEEE 1516 standard. This standard shall contain no classified information and shall be suitable for unlimited distribution.

Product Development Groups (PDGs) are approved to generate specific SISO Products (Standards, Guides, and Reference Products) after approval of a formal Product Nomination.

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Link-16 Simulation Standard (Link-16) PDG Chair: Joe Sorroche DMOC/ASRCC [email protected] Vice Chair: Adin Burroughs Northrop Grumman Info. Tech. [email protected] Secretary: Rob Byers Northrop Grumman Info. Tech. [email protected] Link 16 is one of the critical components of interoperability in the Allied forces. There are immediate and overdue operational requirements for existing and future military simulations to exchange Link-16 data using a single interoperable standard. This group is developing a SISO standard to define the methods to simulate a Link-16 Network within Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS) and High Level Architecture (HLA) frameworks. Real-Time Platform Reference FOM (RPR FOM) PDG Chair: Jim Kogler MäK Technologies [email protected] Vice Chair: Vacancy Secretary: Doug Wood MäK Technologies [email protected] Version 1.0 of this Reference Federation Object Model was the first SISO standard, capturing the functionality of IEEE 1278.1-1995. RPR FOM 2.0, currently under development, will add the functionality of IEEE 1278.1a-1998. The PDG will continue work towards readying the FOM and GRIM for community balloting. Simulation Reference Markup Language (SRML) PDG Chair: Steve Reichenthal The Boeing Company [email protected] Vice Chair: Larry Root SimVentions, Inc. [email protected] Secretary: Vacancy SRML is a product which has been in production since 2001 and has been used within the simulation community by several organizations. Experiences using SRML have been highlighted in several SIW papers as described in the SRML Study Group Final Report. SRML has already gone through an examination process by the World Wide Web Consortium for submission as a Note and has been accepted. The first step is to assemble the SRML product development team, to include members recognized as simulation engine developers and simulation data modelers. Next the team will develop a language specification that will include a description of the SRML concept and XML tag set for the language. Additionally, an SRML user guide will be developed. An engine specification will be developed to include a detailed description of the simulation engine object model and engine API reference.

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Verification, Validation & Accreditation Overlay to Federation Development (VV&A) PDG Chair: Simone Youngblood DMSO [email protected] Vice Chair: Susan Solick TRADOC Analysis Center [email protected] Secretary: Vacancy The VV&A PDG is developing a recommended practices guide outlining implementation methodologies for the VV&A of a federation. IEEE 1516.3, Recommended Practices for HLA Federation Development and Execution Process (FEDEP) recognized VV&A as a key component of federation development and implementation to the extent that placeholders, or "hooks," were included in the FEDEP to support the development of a VV&A overlay. The proposed VV&A guidance document will mirror the FEDEP, addressing overall VV&A methodology, roles and responsibilities, tasks, and resulting products. It will be based on lessons learned and established approaches derived from the M&S community. This guidance document will serve as the foundation for the assessment of credibility of a federation by addressing issues relating to establishing substantive interoperability, promoting reusability, and assuring composability.

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