Progress Report on NATO Standards Development for Maritime Simulation
SISO 2004 Euro Simulation Interoperability Workshop
(04E-SIW-088)
The NATO Naval Armaments Group sub-group 61 on Virtual Ships has been chartered to establish NATO standards for modeling and simulation applied to ship acquisition. Technical activity encompasses data modeling, runtime simulation, and process aspects of virtual ship representation. SG61 is currently endeavoring to define common data model components that will support instantiation in both data modeling and runtime (HLA) simulation environments. These standard components will support multi-national simulation re-use and interoperability, as well as simulation composability. Proposed meta-data defined in the NATO STANAG include model functions, fidelity, limitations, and data interface requirements. Standard model “wrappers” are also being defined. The intent is to harmonize federate management and RTI communication layers, and to unify model data policies for coordinate system, data typing, data naming, units, etc. SG61 is continuing use of the NIREUS mulit-nation collaborative simulation framework to prove out proposed standards.
SG61 is responsible for development of a formal NATO standards document (STANAG) to codify its results. This paper describes the SG61 technical program of work, and discusses current progress and activities toward STANAG publication.
Richard Reading
VisiTech, Ltd.
Tony Springall
Defence Procurement Agency (United Kingdom)
David Hyland
Detica Limited (United Kingdom)
David Spilling
Systems Engineering and Assessment Ltd. (United Kingdom)
