Newcomers Forum 2001 Fall Simulation Interoperability Workshop

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Newcomers Forum 2001 Fall SimulationInteroper
ability Workshop
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Newcomers Forum
0830 1000 SISO SIW ORIENTATION Mr. Bill
Tucker Manager, Modeling Simulation
Technology The Boeing Company, Phantom
Works 1000 - 1030 BREAK 1030 1200
INTRODUCTION TO HLA Mr. Mike Lightner AEgis
Technologies Group, Inc
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Roadmap

• Principles
• Mission, Vision Principles
• Structure
• Participants

• SIW Overview
• Goals
• Structure
• Infrastructure

• Housekeeping

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SISOs Mission
To provide an open forum that promotes the
interoperability and reuse of models and
simulations through the exchange of ideas, the
examination of technologies, and the development
of standards.
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Vision Statement
SISO is The organization dedicated to the
promotion of modeling and simulation
interoperability and reuse for the benefit of
diverse MS communities, including developers,
procurers, and users world-wide.
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Operating Principles

• .Responsiveness and Responsibility - SISO shall
  be responsive to the communities it serves. SISO
  shall be responsible for providing products and
  services that promote interoperability and reuse
  with the least possible impact on existing
  applications.
• .Quality - SISO activities and resulting products
  shall reflect technical excellence and the
  highest quality work.
• .Discipline - SISO shall exercise due process in
  all activities. Policies and procedures shall be
  publicly available and shall serve as the basis
  for governing the organization and its activities.

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Operating Principles(cont.)

• .Fairness - SISO activities shall provide the
  right of appeal at all levels.
• .Openness - SISO activities shall be carried out
  in an open forum where any person has access to
  the process.
• .Consensus - SISO decisions shall be based on
  simple majority agreement unless explicitly
  stated otherwise. Votes and ballots can be
  conducted in person, by teleconference, or by
  electronic balloting, as appropriate and as
  established by the Product Development Group for
  each balloted effort.

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Implementing The Vision
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SISO Operational Activities
Process Organization Management
Standards
Conference
Support
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Process Organization Management Executive
Committee(supported by Executive Directors and
Board of Directors)

• Overall governance
• Strategic Planning
• Policy Development
• Financial Management
• Process Management
• Sponsor Relations

• SISO Inc. board of directors
• avoids conflict of interest for military and DoD
  civilians
• elected from committee membership
• provides business management,

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Standards Standards Activity Committee

• Product Development Management
• Standardization of Technologies supporting
  Interoperability
• IEEE ISO Liaison

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ConferenceConference Committee

• Workshops Conference Management
• Cross-roads Development
• Standards Development Support
• Community Education Information Exchange

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Support

• Assist organization and conduct of Workshops
  Conferences
• Assist Process and Organization Management
• Assist development of Standards and Related
  Products

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World of SISO
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Policies and Procedures

• Defines structure and responsibilities of
  organization and its components including
  committees and forums
• Describe activities, processes, and interactions
  relating to workshops, standards, and product
  development.
• Provide planning procedures for workshops,
  product development and forums
• Define configuration management and control for
  SISO products, and those developed for other
  national or international standards bodies.

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Membership

• To qualify
• Attend at least one conference (or pay nominal
  fee) each year
• Members have
• Right to vote
• Right to run for office
• Full access to SISO web-site - a powerful
  research and reference library
• A very attractive membership card with members
  very own name and number!

Please be sure your registration contact
information is correct to get these benefits!
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Plus, the best membership Benefit -Involvement!

• Attend Conference - Listen, ask Questions
• Sign up for, read, and contribute to reflector
  discussion relevant to your interests
• Sign up for study or product development group
• Write Paper
• Vote
• Run for office

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Simulation Technology Magazine

• WWW.SimulationTechnology.org
• SISO s Online Magazine
• Published quarterly
• Dell Lunceford - Editor

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SISO Election Process

• Self-nomination Process
• Election Committee posts call for
  self-nominations for each open position.
• Candidates post their qualifications via Web page
• Voting Eligibility
• All current SISO members are eligible to vote
• PRP election eligibility limited to those members
  subscribed to relevant SISO reflectors
• Web Based Voting Process http//www.sisostds.org
• Voter enters email address and SISO membership
• number (They must match!)
• System generates ballot for voters eligible
  elections
• Complete ballot must be cast in a single Web
  visit
• Ballot summary emailed to voter

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Election Process
Results Announced
Balloting
Nomination Period
Election Announcement

• Election Committee established at start of annual
  cycle, publishes announcement.
• Open positions announced via ADMIN reflectors
• Both voters and candidates must establish
  membership prior to election (SISO and PRP)
• Candidates self nominate during 3 week period.
• Balloting Conducted via Elections Link on Web
  Page - Enter PIN, receive ballot, vote for N----
• Results validated by Election Committee -
  announced via mail reflector

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Committee Elections(EXCOM, CC, SAC and PRP)

• Each year, in May and June
• One-third of EXCOM members elected to 3-year
  terms
• One-half of CC and SAC members elected to 2-year
  terms
• All PRP members elected to 1-year terms
• Elections are simultaneous.
• Term limits EXCOM, SAC, and CC maximum of two
  consecutive terms. PRPs none

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Current Leadership
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Executive Committee
Katz, Warren (2002) Chair Ryan,
Mick (2002) Vice Chair Shiflett,
Jim (2003) Secretary Lacetera,
Joe (2003) Lunceford, Dell (2001) Mattson,
Anders (A) (2001) Myjak, Michael
(X) (2002) SAC Chair Severinghaus, Rick
(X) (2002) CC Chair Stapelton, Chris
(A) (2001) Waite, Bill (2003) Walters, Chuck
(A) (2001)
(A) Appointed for 1 year term (X)
Ex-officio member of committee
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SISO Executive Directors
Duncan Miller Conference/Workshop Activities
Harry H. Thompson III Sponsor Relations

• Executive Directors are part time, paid employees
  of SISO

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Conference Committee
Severinghaus, Rick (2002) Chair Knight,
Sam (2002) Vice Chair Solick, Susan (2001) Secret
ary Fairchild, Bruce (A) (2001) Hofer,
Ron (2002) McKeeby, David (X) (2001) SAC Vice
Chair Schiavone, Dan (2002) Shockley,
John (2002) Smith, Col. Mark (2002) Sullivan,
Ken (A) (2001)
(A) Appointed for 1 year term (X)
Ex-officio member of committee
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Standards Activity Committee
Myjak, Michael (2002) Chair McKeeby,
David (2002) Vice Chair Mullins,
Tom (2001) Secretary Bevan, Michelle (2001)
Bouwens, Chris (2002) Gravitz, Peggy (2002)
Knight, Sam (X) (2001) CC Vice
Chair Lightner, Mike (2001) Little,
Reed (2002) O'Connor, Mike (2001) Weihagen,
Gene (A) (2001) Zimmerman, Phil (2001) SISC
Chair
(A) Appointed for 1 year term (X)
Ex-officio member of committee
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SISO Standards Development

• Standards Activity Committee (SAC) manages SISO
  Standards work
• Sponsors Study Groups (SG) Jointly with CC
• Charters Product Development Groups (PDG's)
• Standards, Guidance, Reference and Administrative
  Products.
• Products may be Institute for Electrical and
  Electronic Engineers (IEEE) or International
  Standards Organization (ISO) Standards.

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SISO Standards Development Process
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Standards Development

• Product Development Groups (SAC Sponsored)
• RPR FOM V2.0 - Real-Time Platform Reference FOM
• EDCS - Environmental Data Coding Specification
• SRM - Spatial Reference Model
• FEDEP Federation Development Process

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Standards Development (cont.)

• Study Groups (Jointly Sponsored by SAC and CC)
• BOM-WS Base Object Model
• C4I TRM SG C4I Technical Reference Model
• ECON-SG Economics of MS Study Group
• DEVS SG Discrete Event Systems Specification
  Study Group (not meeting this workshop)

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Real-Time Platform Reference Federation Object
Model

• RPR FOM is a Reference FOM intended to serve the
  Real-time Platform simulation community. It is
  designed to capture the functionality of the IEEE
  1278.1 and IEEE 1278.1A (aka DIS) standards.
• Version 1.0 (for IEEE 1278.1) is an approved SISO
  Standard.
• Version 2.0 (for IEEE 1278.1A) is in the final
  stages of development. Balloting as a SISO
  Standards should take place in the next 6 months
  to a year.
• PDG Meeting scheduled for Tuesday, 800 AM in
  Pelican. Discussion group Monday 700 PM in
  Sanibel

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Synthetic Environment Data Representation
Interchange Specification (SEDRIS)

• Two SEDRIS products (of large family of standards
  and tools) currently being developed as
  International Standards Organization (ISO)
  standards
• Environmental Data Coding Specification (EDCS)
• Spatial Reference Model (SRM)
• SISO is providing the US technical review of the
  standard through American National Standards
  Institute (ANSI).
• The International Electro-technical committee
  (IEC) is a cooperative partner with ISO.
• The in-process standards are referred to as
  working documents (WD)

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Environmental Data Coding Standard (EDCS)

• ISO/IEC WD 18025
• EDCS
• Unifies characterizations of environmental
  things
• Separates enumerations from Data Representation
  Models
• EDCS PDG Meeting
• Wednesday 330 PM in Cypress (following simulated
  natural environment (SNE) forum meeting).

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Spatial Reference Model

• ISO/IEC WD 18026
• Spatial Reference Model is a set of well-defined
• Spatial reference frames,
• Object reference models, and
• Coordinate systems
• Spatial Reference Model allows coordinates
• To be specified succinctly, and
• To be converted accurately between different
  spatial reference frames.
• SRM PDG Meeting
• Thursday, 330 PM in Cypress (following SNE Forum
  Session)

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Federation Development Process (FEDEP)

• This group is developing an industry standard
  federation development process model from the
  existing DMSO model.
• Meeting 700 tonight in Sanibel and Wednesday at
  700 PM in Amelia.

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Study Group Meetings

• Base Object Model (BOM - SG) 800 AM Tuesday in
  Manatee (Tower building).
• Economics of MS (ECON - SG) 130 PM Wednesday
  in Captiva.
• C4I Technical Reference Model (C4I -TRM SG)
  800 AM Tuesday in Manatee.
• Multi-Trainer Interoperability (MTI SG) 900 AM
  Pelican (Tower building)

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SISO CC Sponsored Events

• 2001 Fall Simulation Interoperability Workshop.
• 11th Annual Computer Generated Forces and
  Behavioral Representation Conference. Orlando,
  FL, May 7-9, 2002.
• 2002 Euro-SIW, TBD
• 2002 Fall Simulation Interoperability Workshop,
  September, Orlando, Florida, September 10 15,
  2002.

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Roadmap

• SISO Overview
• Mission, Vision Principals
• Structure
• Participants

• SIW Overview
• Goals
• Structure
• Infrastructure

• Housekeeping

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Workshop Structure
Infrastructure
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Conference Forums - General MS Community

• Sunday Tutorials
• DEVS Model/Simulation Composition Framework
• SEDRIS
• Federation Development and Execution Process
  (FEDEP) and Supporting Tools
• Insights Into HLA Federation Development Issues
• Simulation of US and International C4I Systems
• SPEEDES
• Simulation Based Acquisition
• Training Forums
• Standards Activity Committee Status report
• Newcomers Orientation

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Conference Forums - General MS Community (cont.)

• Opening Plenary
• Keynote Speaker Lt. Gen Leslie F. Kenne, USAF
  Commander, Electronic Systems Center, US Air
  Force Materiel Command
• Featured Speaker Mr, David Bowman, Chair UK
  Synthetic Environment Management Team, BAE
  Systems.
• Invited Speaker Dr. Michael Macedonia, Chief
  Scientist and Technical Director, US Army STRICOM
• Closing Plenary
• Workshop Outbrief

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User Community Forums(Rick Severinghaus/Ron
Hofer)

• Analysis Forum (ANL)
• Research, Development, and Engineering Forum
  (RDE)
• Test and Evaluation Forum (TE)
• Training Forum (Train)
• System Acquisition Product Development (SAPD)
  Forum

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Specialty Area Forums

• Infrastructure Track
• Run-Time Infrastructure and Communications Forum
• Live Interaction Form
• Federation Development Track
• Federation Development Process Forum
• Exercise Management Forum
• Environment Track
• Simulated Natural Environment Forum
• Sensor Modeling Forum
• Command/Control/Communications/Intelligence/Survei
  llance/ Reconnaissance Track
• C4I Forum
• Information Operation - Intelligence Surveillance
  Reconnaissance Forum
• Applications Track
• Modeling and SImulation Implementers Forum
• Vehicle/Weapon System Modeling Forum
• Human Decision-Making and Behavior Representation
  Forum
• Logistics Forum

• VVA Forum
• Sensor Modeling Forum

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Virtual Forums

• Real-Time Platform Reference Federation Object
  Model (RPR-FOM)
• Meets Monday _at_ 700 PM
• Grand Challenges for MS
• Meets Thursday _at_ 130 PM

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Workshop Schedule

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Wednesday/Thursday
Friday
Tuesday
Monday
Workshop Outbrief
New Comers Orientation
SAC
AM
HLA Technology Transition
C4ISR C4IS SENS
ENVIRONMENT SN E SENS
FEDERATION DEV'T PROC EMF VVA
INFRASTRUCTURE RTI LIVE
APPLICATIONS IMPL VEH BEH LOG
Plenary
PM
Specialty Area Forums
SISC
Fedep PDG
International
Virtual Forum Social
EVE
Demos, Displays, Lunch Evening
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SISO Infrastructure - Email

• SISO day-to-day business conducted via mail
  reflectors
• Subscribe via the SISO Web page
  lthttp//www.sisostds.orggt
• Some reflectors are private (subscription and
  posting controlled)
• All reflectors have archives. Most recent 60 -
  90 days of activity available to SISO members
• Digest Mode Available
• Forum reflector subscribers also receive SISO,
  SIW, and SAC ADMIN announcements.
• Forum reflector subscribers eligible to run in
  and vote in that Forum and all committee
  elections
• Open reflectors, SISO-DISCUSS, and SAC-DISCUSS,
  for broad interest discussions
• Standards Development Groups call for volunteers
  via Forum reflectors

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SISO Reflectors
SISO - EXCOM SISO - ADMIN SISO - DISCUSS SISO
- SG-XX
EXCOM
SISO - SAC SAC - COM SAC - DISCUSS SAC -
ADMIN SAC - PDG - XX
SISO - CC FORUM Reflectors SIW - XXX
SAC
CC
PRIVATE CONFERENCES SISO Send Only
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Roadmap

• Principles
• Mission, Vision Principals
• Structure
• Participants

• SIW Overview
• Goals
• Structure
• Infrastructure

• Housekeeping

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Housekeeping Details

• Finding help and information
• Decoding ribbon colors
• Questionnaires and quality control
• Appropriate attire

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Finding Help and Information

• First, check your Workshop Program
• Check Information desk monitor for announcements
  and changes
• For questions about SISO organization, policy,
  and procedures ...
• Check Web site lthttp//www.sisostds.orggt
• Ask EXCOM/Conference Committee/SAC Members
• For help in signing up for SISO and SIW email
  reflectors...
• Check Web site lthttp//www.sisostds.orggt
• For general assistance at the Workshop ...
• Ask any of the Support Group staff (wearing golf
  shirts)
• Ask at registration desk

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Badge Ribbon Colors
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Questionnaires and Evaluation Forms

• Please help to improve the Workshop by
• Filling out the demographic questionnaire
  (distributed at plenary)
• Filling out an Evaluation Form for each Forum you
• attend (available in each Forum venue)
• We need your frank opinions to improve the
  Workshop and SISO
• Place suggestions in suggestion boxes or address
  them to Committee Members

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What We Need From You

• Active Participation

• Listen

• Consider

• Discuss

• Write

• Vote

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Proper Workshop Attire
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Back Up Charts
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Analysis Forum (ANL)
ANL is concerned with interoperability issues and
uses of distributed models and simulations for
analysis. ANL encourages the education of the
analysis community about Advanced Distributed
Simulation (ADS) and of the users of ADS about
analysis. ANL will conduct two focus sessions at
the 1999 Spring SIW. One will focus on data
collection and the other will focus on the role
of the analyst in the HLA Federation Development
and Execution Process (FEDEP). Topics of interest
include
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Research, Development, and Engineering Forum(RDE)
RDE is concerned with use of distributed
simulation to evaluate alternative designs and
research concepts as well as to support
engineering decisions within the RDE community.
RDE is specifically interested in the practical
results from RDE users' experiences gained in
implementing HLA-compliant simulations.
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Test and Evaluation Forum (TE)
The Test and Evaluation Forum is for people,
agencies, and projects using advanced distributed
simulation (ADS) in test and evaluation. Papers
presented in the TE Forum describe lessons
learned from actual implementation of ADS in TE
planning considerations and the identification
of specific needs that the TE community might
have for ADS, including any specific requirements
relating to HLA. We are also interested in
incorporating live entities with virtual and
constructive simulations, and with linking
historically standalone TE facilities, such as
HWIL, ISTF, and laboratories.
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Small Team Training Forum (STT)
STT focuses on the planning, management,
requirements, and use of simulations that provide
individual, sub-team, and team training to system
operators, team leaders, tactical decision
makers, and other hands-on users including
applications of both live and virtual simulation
in training.
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Staff-Level Training Forum (SLT)
SLT provides a setting for discussion of issues
of simulation in training Category III and
Category II staffs. We have a special interest
in the user perspective, but welcome and
encourage participation by any whose interests
and expertise may contribute to improvements or
refinements in the state of the art.
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Infrastructure Track
Run-Time Infrastructure and Communications Forum
(RTI) Keith Briggs Simulation practitioners
should consider RTIC for the presentation of
work related to the use and implementation of the
HLA Runtime Infrastructure (RTI)
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Infrastructure Track
Live Interaction Forum Michael Wesdell The Live
Interaction Forum provides an opportunity for
those interested in live simulations to exchange
information and share experiences. The Forum is
focused on the issues associated with simulations
that depend upon live participants and the
associated simulation instrumentation. Included
areas of interest are architecture, protocol,
instrumentation, simulation management, and
numerous technical issues that effect stand-alone
live simulations, as well as the integration of
live simulations with virtual and constructive
simulations for training, test and evaluation,
and other applications.
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Environment Track
Simulated Natural Environment Forum (SNE)
Kimberly Neff Concerned with the common
representation of the land, ocean, atmosphere,
surf zone and space environment in an
interoperable simulation. The 1999 Spring Forum
sessions will focus on a shared, correlated
natural environment representation as the
foundation of an interoperable simulation.
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Environment Track
Sensor Forum (SENS) (co-administered by C4ISR)
Annette Janett
Bridges the environmental and mission/system-rela
ted areas. SENS focuses on interoperability in
an integrated, end-to-end approach, defining
requirements and addressing issues of
interoperability, fidelity, correlation,
representation, recommended practices,
interfaces and interchange mechanisms for sensors
used by the SISO community. Key functional
systems addressed include navigation, search and
target acquisition, reconnaissance, surveillance,
intelligence, emissions, tracking, IR search and
track, fire control and missiles systems
(detection, warning, and design) and guidance.
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Federation Development Track
Federation Development Process Forum (PROC)
Robert Lutz PROC is focused on the process of
federation development and execution. The primary
purpose of this Forum is to facilitate the
long-term evolution of a generalized lifecycle
process model for HLA federations, and to assist
in the establishment of SISO standards that
support this process. Exercise Management Forum
(EMF) Ralph Whitney EMF discusses tools for
automating the evolving Federation Development
and Execution Process. The Forum proposes
functionality and interface standards for tools
in areas such as Planning, Initialization,
Monitoring, Runtime Controls, Data Collection,
Data Analysis, Visualization, and After Action
Reviews.
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Federation Development Track (cont.)
Verification, Validation Accreditation Forum
(VVA) Simone Youngblood The VVA Forum is
focused on methodologies, procedures, and
associated techniques which may be used to
establish credibility of federations. The VVA
objectives emphasize quality (e.g., building in
authoritative representations and behaviors) and
risk management. This forum will support the
development and evolution of VVA guidance (in
the form of standards, recommended practices,
and/or guides) which supplement the federation
development/application lifecycle process model
documentation. Testing Forum (TEST) Kevin
Mullally The Testing Forum will discuss
techniques, tools, drivers, and methodologies for
testing as it applies to HLA, SISO Standards, and
the transition of legacy simulations to SISO
standards.
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COMMAND, CONTROL, COMMUNICATIONS, COMPUTERS,
SURVEILLANCE, RECONNAISSANCE AND INTELLIGENCE
(C4ISR) TRACK
Command, Control, Communications, Computers, and
Intelligence Forum (C4I) Bill Sudnikovich The
C4I Forum is concerned with the interoperability
of simulations that represent systems and
activities in the following areas Command and
control Realistic representation of
communications Intelligence collection,
processing and dissemination Information
warfare Interfaces between live C4I systems and
simulations Implications of HLA and the DoD
Joint Technical Architecture Methodology for
creating object representations from CMMS
information. Sensor Forum (SENS) (co-administered
by ENVIRONMENT) SENS is an interdisciplinary
forum that spans the Environment and C4I areas.
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APPLICATIONS TRACK
Federation Implementers' Forum (IMPL) Dennis
Cottongim IMPL addresses the resources,
processes, and issues encountered in developing
Federates and Federations. Papers should
emphasize generally applicable implementation-leve
l details (i.e., how does it work, how is it
used, how can it improve). Timely lessons
learned from using the latest HLA-related
developments are of particular interest.
Vehicle/Weapon System Modeling Forum (VWS)
Tim Jahren The primary focus of VWS is on the
development and reuse of weapon/vehicle system
simulations. Included in the weapon/vehicle
system class of simulations are all classes of
manned and unmanned weapon and vehicle systems
that operate in space, air, ground, and sea
environments. VWS addresses the representation
of vehicle/weapon systems in constructive,
virtual, and live simulations at engineering,
engagement, mission, and campaign levels of
aggregation.
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APPLICATIONS TRACK (cont.)
Human Decision-Making and Behavior Representation
Forum (BEH) David Kwak BEH is concerned with
all those issues that affect the representation
of human behaviors in models and simulations.
These issues range from providing the appropriate
interfaces to live humans so that they may act as
entities of the simulation, to automating human
decision-making processes at all levels.
Logistics Forum (LOG) Dave Prochnow LOG
focuses on issues related to all aspects of
logistics simulation, to include supply chain
logistics, logistics business practices, and the
representation of logistics systems at the
national, strategic, operational, and tactical
military levels, as well as appropriate aspects
of coalition partner, host nation, and/or
non-military/commercial logistics.
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SISO Structure
Ensures SISO workshops and standards serve
broader MS community goals
Executive Committee
Standards Activity Committee
Conference Committee
Develops standards that promote MS
interoperability
Simulation Interoperability Workshop
SISO Community
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Workshop Reflectors
SIW-ADMIN
SIW - PRP
USER
SIW-FED
SIW-ENV
Other
SIW-APP
Infrastructure
SIW-RTI
SIW-ANAL
SIW-PROC
SIW-SNE
SIW-C4ISR
SIW-IMPL
SIW-RPR
SIW-LIVE
SIW-RDE
SIW-EMF
SIW-SNE-DD
SIW-VEH
SIW-ECON
SIW-TRAIN
SIW-BEH
SIW-SENS
SIW-VVA
SIW-SEC
,,,
SIW-SAPD
SIW-LOG
For these and other SISO reflectors go to
lthttp//www.sisostds.orggtand select Reflectors
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Communication, Command, Control, Computing,
Intelligence (C4I) Technical Reference Model

• Meeting 700 PM Wednesday in Sanibel.
• Standards Activity Committee reviewing Product
  Nomination - PDG will be formed when approved