Title
Adding Reports to Coalition Battle Management Language for NATO MSG-048
Author
TNO Defensie en Veiligheid
Pullen, J.M.
Corner, D.
Singapogo, S.S.
Clarc, N.
Cordonnier, N.
Menane, M.
Khimeche, L.
Mevassvik, O.M.
Alstad, A.
Schad, U.
Frey, M.
M. de Reus, N.
de Krom, P.P.J.
le Grand, N.P.
Brook, A.
Publication year
2009
Abstract
The NATO Modeling and Simulation Group Technical Activity 48 (MSG-048) was chartered in 2006 to investigate the potential of a Coalition Battle Management Language for multinational and NATO interoperation of command and control systems with modeling and simulation. Its initial work in defining and demonstrating a basic capability for this purpose has been reported in previous Euro-SIW papers. This paper addresses Phase 2 of the Technical Activity which expanded the BML paradigm by adding C2 Reports, enabling two-way flow of information between C2 and simulation systems. The new capability was demonstrated at the InterService/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference (I/ITSEC) 2008. The demonstration configuration combined three national C2 systems and three national simulations along with middleware from two other nations. The result was a generic C2- simulation linkage with no humans in the information exchange loop. This was achieved in only four months, using a network-enabled development approach with an Internet Reference Implementation combined with a powerful development environment based on a C2 Lexical Grammar graphical user interface for inspection of the exchanged information, plus a scripted approach for rapid development of expanded BML Web services. This paper provides a description of the BML Reports and the enhanced development methodology to support expansion of the BML concept in general and the work of the SISO C-BML Product Development Group in particular. We conclude with a projection of the work of MSG-048 in 2009, which focuses on operational validation of the C-BML concept.
Subject
Command and control C2
Simulation
Battle management language
Interoperability
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TNO identifier
273967
Source
2009 Euro Simulation Interoperability Workshop - Euro SIW, July 13-16, 2009, Istanbul, Turkey., 15-25
Document type
conference paper