HA I 1 (4)GE Army

Presented at the 19th INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON MILITARY OPERATIONS RESEARCH

at Eynsham Hall, 26 August - 30 August 2002

Data Administration forModelling & Simulation

27 August 2002 by Peter Arwanitis, IABG

Data Administration forModelling & Simulation

27 August 2002 by Peter Arwanitis, IABG

HEERESAMTKÖLN

HA I 1 (4)GE Army

Not again!The Quest for the Holy

Grail of Interoperability

Today:Approach of the GE Army

in M&S domain

The really unofficial working title:The really unofficial working title:

HA I 1 (4)GE Army

IntroductionYou are? We are

IntroductionYou are? We are

GE Army, Heeresamt I 1 (4) (German Army Office)– Responsible to build up a M&S

• Integrated System of Systems / Integrated Data Network

– to serve National and Allies with validated data– from distributed and heterogeneous data sources

• OR-Studies for Army Development & Procurement• OR-Support for Military Operations (DST)• Training & Exercises

IABG mbH– Their industrial partner with long time experience in

• NATO Data Administration Standards and • Pioneer in national Data Administration for C2-Systems

HA I 1 (4)GE Army

OutlineOutline

Our Battlefield Analysis– What is the definition of BLUE & RED in our problem

domain? So what is our MISSION?

The Art of War– What is our philosophy, strategy, techniques and

weapons?

Fighting our Battle– A glance on our actual and near future results &

capabilities

Points of Contact & Questions

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Our Battlefield AnalysisBLUE

Our Battlefield AnalysisBLUE

Point of View– We are outside any specific OR discipline or level

Every bit of algorithm, SW-module, OR-system is a single weapon, data the ammunition– individual crafted from experts for a specific task– number of this weapons only in GE is enormous

Definition & discussion about effectiveness of such a single weapon or a related group: Is your job!

To look at all weapons and data to support you under common aspects: Is our job!

HA I 1 (4)GE Army

Our Battlefield AnalysisRED

Our Battlefield AnalysisRED

RED is not actual an enemy, it‘s an increasing set of requirements– Cost Reducing Programs– Reducing and restructuring of GE Forces– Drastic changes in expecting manpower expenditure– Tendency to multirole / multipurpose weaponsystems– Drastically shorten timelines in procurement and

operations– Maximum flexibility for mostly unknown future scenarios

HA I 1 (4)GE Army

Our Battlefield AnalysisMISSION

Our Battlefield AnalysisMISSION

Modeling & Simulation is a key for• procurement• training & exercises• mission planning and support• mission analysis

Our Mission• Investigate, Concentrate,

Control & Distribute own M&S potential• Flexible orchestrate common OR-scenarios

to answer new questions• Do this in Time & Cost and with a predictable Quality of Service

Make OR combat ready!

HA I 1 (4)GE Army

The Art of War The Redshift

Phenomenon

The Art of War The Redshift

Phenomenon Look at the expansion of your M&S universe– diversification & specialisation on mind and system level

Where is Intelligence, Compatibility, Standards? Where in fact is Interoperability?

Where is information management?

Good idea, but: Don‘t change experts or existing systems!Support them in their language & skills!

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The Art of WarBabelfish

Technology

The Art of WarBabelfish

Technology It‘s time! Everyone puts his Babelfish in his preferred ear! Ok, perfect real-time understanding! Not???

Unfortunately a Babelfish is a fictional godlike language converter, directly connected with your brain and linked to a gigantic database.

In military terms: A central authoritative agency– They are doing the converter job– They are the keeper of the “Holy Grail of Interoperabilty”

(as the common language and their translations)– They are doing this job to be useful for all levels of user and for

the benefit of new knowledge

(and what is „godlike“ in military terms?)

(and what is „godlike“ in military terms?)

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The Art of WarOur Workbench

Philosophy

The Art of WarOur Workbench

Philosophy We have defined our mission & processes in terms of– (MASS-)PRODUCTION

• producing the semantic M&S Ontology,• producing the translations (cross-walk),• producing flexible IT-support for

Data-Administration, Management and Exchange

– and not as an INDIVIDUAL, CREATIVE ART• counter-productive from this point of view

in terms of time, cost & transparency

So we have to build a flexible workbench– based on open and transparent tools– fit them in an assembly line (framework)– store and retrieve in- & output in a warehouse

HA I 1 (4)GE Army

Fighting our BattleSemantic

Expressiveness

Fighting our BattleSemantic

Expressiveness Founded on NATO LC2IEDM (formerly ATCCIS)• Semantic model of the battlefield for C2 systems• Resolution fitted for Battalion/Brigade and upon• Action oriented with Subject-Predicate-Object pattern• Divided in Object-Templates and real Object-Item container• Additional main concepts: Capability, Location

Semantic AddOn concepts for use in M&S• Ballistic, Biology & Medicine• Accuracy & Error (physical, functional till mission level)• Lethality, Vulnerability• Statistic and 3D geometry• Technical design data and assembly lists (material & human)

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Fighting our BattleTechnical

Workbench Aspects

Fighting our BattleTechnical

Workbench Aspects If there is anything to connect: Do it with XML! Development in Python

– The real language for a moving target development

XML-Process Framework– Toolbox of systems and components as XML-components– Modelling of chains and nets of processes– Distribution of components and data via web

Integrated important lexical sources– LEXIS (authorised military translation database)– WordNet

Searchengine with expert-language interface

HA I 1 (4)GE Army

Fighting our BattleOur Capabilities

(end 2002)

Fighting our BattleOur Capabilities

(end 2002) Catalogue of – OR-System interface descriptions (approx. 14 systems)– related static and dynamic exchange data– Cross-Walks (mappings) from heterogeneous interfaces to

GE Corporate Data Model M&S

On top – VV&A, analysis and common scenario developing (in 2003)

upon unified semantic– tracing data along their life-cycle

Distribution through seamless Data Exchange of– static and scenario data and reintegration of the results

HA I 1 (4)GE Army

Points of ContactQuestions

Points of ContactQuestions

Military POC– Heeresamt I 1 (4), Cologne

• MAJ Zimmermann– bernd1zimmermann@bundeswehr.org

Industry POC– IABG mbH, Munich

• Dr. Stefan Krusche krusche@iabg.de• Peter Arwanitis arwanitis@iabg.de

Download this powerpoint– http://www.dm-forum.org/ftp/ismor19.zip