| A Synthetic Environment
for C2 System Integration Based on Emerging Infrastructure Standards
January 2000
Dr. George F. Providakes, The MITRE Corporation
R. Douglas Flournoy, The MITRE Corporation
ABSTRACT
To maintain information superiority as warfighting methods and technologies
evolve, increasing quantities of time critical information must be shared
between C2 systems. To meet these needs, interoperability between C2
systems must be driven to a new level. A synthetic battlespace testbed
environment can facilitate this interoperability by providing a realistic
context within which C2 systems can operate to refine information exchange
mechanisms and processes. Existing simulations can be linked together
to compose these synthetic battlespaces. Migrations to (1) the High
Level Architecture (HLA) for DoD simulations and (2) the Defense Information
Infrastructure (DII) Common Operating Environment (COE) for C2 systems
offer opportunities to ease the composition of synthetic battlespaces
and simulation-to-C2 connections. At the Electronic Systems Center (ESC),
developing agency for many of the Air Force's C2 systems, a team
of researchers is evaluating options for COE-based systems interoperability
with HLA-compliant simulations within a framework to support C2 system
integration and testing. This paper presents the vision for this framework
and lessons learned from prototyping efforts to date.
Additional Search Keywords
Distributed Simulation, HLA, DII COE, C2 System Integration
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