SCSC2003 Abstract S11882
Development of a Virtual Warfare Center
Development of a Virtual Warfare Center
Submitting Author: Mr. Joe Uzdzinski
Abstract:
For a number of years the US Navy has recognized the need for improvements in joint interoperability. This was dramatically demonstrated in Operation Desert Storm when the US Navy and USAF AWACS air defense platforms were severely limited in their ability to conduct Joint data exchange operations. These operational inconsistencies continue today as the legacy TADIL A requirements implemented in TADIL J result in sub-optimized interoperations among the participants. Consequently the US Navy requires an ability to rapidly investigate these inconsistencies in order to identify requirements for enhancing existing BMC4I architectures. In addition, the Joint Theater Air and Missile Defense Office (JTAMDO) is tasked to develop requirements for air and missile defense as currently defined in the Theater Air and Missile Defense Capstone Requirements Document (TAMD CRD) and in the Combat Identification Capstone Requirements Document (CID CRD). These requirements are derived from the n
eed to support the Joint Theater Air and Missile Defense Operational Concept for the 2010-2012 time frame. Integral to that concept are the Single Integrated Air Picture (SIAP), timely and accurate Combat Identification (CID), advanced engagement concepts including Integrated Fire Control (IFC), and Automated Battle Management Aids (ABMA).
With improvements in computing and Modeling and Simulation (M&S) there is an opportunity to provide a virtual environment in which high fidelity representations of these architectures can be employed to identify these inconsistencies. JTAMDO and the Navy will need sufficient C2 engineering and development tools, a traditionally weak area of M&S, to update current system designs and support future designs to support Single Integrated Air Picture (SIAP) development and beyond. JTAMDO will be using the VWC in St. Louis as one of several facilities to conduct experiments with multiple platform / system models interactively playing together to study SIAP, CID, and IFC problems. JTAMDO is seeking a medium fidelity representation of the Aegis Combat System (ACS) to be integrated into the VWC in time to support a Combat ID exercise in the Spring of 2004. A key factor in choosing how to invest limited funding for integrating new systems into the VWC is the degree that they are portab
le and can be reused in other similar environments, such as the Joint Distributed Engineering Plant (JDEP).
Lockheed Martin Naval Electronics and Surveillance Systems, Surface Systems (LM NE&SS SS) has been providing Modeling, Simulation and Analysis (MS&A) support to Aegis baseline design and test for over twenty five years, and as a result has developed a suite of high fidelity element and system-level models. NE&SS has adopted an M&S strategy, which embraces the open architecture concept. To support this strategy, the Navy and NE&SS are currently working on a new architecture and process framework known as MEDUSA21. This project is an integral part of the M&S strategy, focusing on providing the flexibility to interchange and link components at various levels to conduct rapid prototyping to explore different architectural and algorithmic concepts.
A case has been developed between LM NE&SS SS and the Navy through informal channels, briefings and submissions as to the appropriateness of a MEDUSA21-based solution for meeting the short-term VWC and long-term JDEP C4I goals of the Navy and Aegis.
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