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The international Maritime Missile Defense Forum was established in April, 1999, with the U.S. Navy, the Royal Netherlands Navy, the German Navy, and the Italian Navy as full members, and the Royal Australian Navy, the Canadian Maritime Command, the Spanish Navy, and the United Kingdom Royal Navy as observers.
| The purpose of the Forum is to create international co-operation and cost sharing in the area of maritime missile defense between the Forum’s member nations. The Forum’s Modelling and Simulation Working Group was established in 2001 when the Forum realized that modeling and simulation would play an important role in developing, testing and evaluating the projected systems that enable sea based missile defense. It also realized that models of individual components and systems were available within the various member nations, but that these needed to be brought together in an overall system simulation.
VisiTech, as a charter member of the Working Group, is working to cooperatively with national laboratories and defense electronic firms on three continents. Together, the team develops and maintains a detailed, distributed modeling and simulation framework representing shipboard combat, control and management systems. The mature framework will include the family of systems for sea based missile defense, from the single ship defense up to multinational naval battle groups. |
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