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NATO M&S Centre of Excellence - Piazza Villoresi 1, I-00141 ROME

NATO M&S COE


Outlines

• Why a COE

• NATO MS COE

• Key points

• Way ahead

• Vision

• Facilities

• Capabilities & Standards

• Current activities & projects

• Future


WHY A COE?

MCM-236-03 “MC Concept for COEs”

Def.: … A COE is a nationally or multi-nationally sponsored entity, which offers recognized expertise and experience to the benefit

of the Alliance, especially in support of transformation.A COE provides opportunities to enhance education and

training, to improve interoperability and capabilities, to assist in doctrine development and/or to test and validate

concepts through experimentation.A COE is not part of the NATO Command Structure (NCS), but

forms part of the wider framework supporting NCA.

A COE is generally a result of an identified shortfall in NATO’s capabilities.


Main benefits for NATO and Nations Risk reduction in development and implementation;

Shared development of simulations and concepts including verification and validation interoperability;

Marketing in terms of contribution to NATO by sharing the load with other Nations;

One single location with SMEs in place working together;

Experimentation worked in the same place;

Cut of investment costs.

WHY A COE?


NATO COEs

NATO Accredited

COEs

CJOS COENorfolk, USA

Establishing COEs

CSW COEKiel, DEU

JAPCC COEKakar, DEU

C2 COEEde, NLD

CIMIC COEEnschede,

NLD

NMW COEOostende,

BEL

MILENG COEIngolstadt,

DEU

CASPOA COELyon, FRA

C-IED COEMadrid, ESP

CWO COEBodo, NOR

CCD COETallinn, EST

CCD COETallinn, EST

ENSEC COEVilnius, LTU

MP COEBydgoszcz,

POL

JCBRN Defence COEVyskov, CZE

EOD COETrencin, SVK

MILMED COEBudapest,

HUN

HUMINT COEOradea, ROM

MW COELjubljana, SVN

CMDR COESofia, BGR

DAT COEAnkara, TUR

M&S COEROME


Octobe

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9

• The Italian CHOD expresses the intention to candidate the National M&S COE as a NATO M&S COE and offers it to all NATO Nations and Partners.

April

2012

• The Military Commitee accredites the Modelling & Simulation Centre of Excellence as a NATO COE

July 201

2

• The North Atlantic Council activates the Modelling & Simulation Centre of Excellence as an International Military Organization.

NATO M&S COE

It is the 17th NATO accredited COE

a brief update ….


Sponsoring Nations:• Italy• Czech Republic• USA (Joining)

Nations which showed interest to join the initiative:• L i thuania• Switzer land• Slovenia• Hungary

M&S COE membership


Operational and Functional MOU key points

• The mission of the NATO M&S COE is to support NATO and its Nations as well as participating Partner Nations by providing subject matter expertise on all aspects of the M&S activities

Mission

• E&T• Knowledge Management,

Lessons Learned & Analysis• Support to CD&E• Doctrine development, Standards

and Interoperability

Core Areas

• Within its capacity, the NATO M&S COE will also support the SNs and Partners when requested, in their M&S-related efforts to improve military effectiveness and interoperability with NATO assets, forces and capabilities

The NATO M&S COE will ensure

the first priority of work for provision

of services and products

requested by on behalf of NATO.


Total positions: 44

M&S COE Structure and ManningDIRECTORATE

(8)

Doctrine, E & TBranch (7)

Doctrine, Standards &

Methodology

Modelling, E&T Support

Human Factors & Limitations

Distributed Simulation Branch (11)

Scenario Mgmt & Doctrine Implem.

Data Management

Model Design & Development

C D & EBranch (10)

Architecture Definition & Verification

Operational Research

Simulation Based Acquisition

DataA & LL

Support Branch(8)

CIS

Personnel & Admin Support


M&S COE Way Ahead

Increase participation in any trial/exercise in order to: Provide with M&S technical support;

Increase interoperability between systems;

Intercept warfighter operational needs and help in defining operational requirements.

Privilege any RFS in the field of CD&E;

Investigate and evaluate the potential of M&S in the field of education in Strategic Decision Making and Negotiation, Mediation and Decision Making Exercise (NMDX);

Adjust the training objective in order to provide mainly formation of SME (NATO and SN) “earmarked” for future direct collaboration with NATO Centres and with M&S COI.


M&S COE & Community Of Interest

Main Events sharing and management (e.g. CAX Forum with JWC/ Academia);

Exchange of SME with NATO and National M&S entities (e.g. Courses and CAX support with JWC/ Academia);

Enable a multilevel M&S network in order to federate all national M&S Centres;

Liaison with Companies in the spirit of DNBL initiative.


Support to Alternative Analysis Pilot Course (ROME 28/1- 8/2)

ITEC 2013 (ROME 22-24 May) Cooperation with NATO and industry Booths; Distributed Simulation Demo with the involvement of M&S COE Lab

and IT Defence Industry Lab (DNBL initiative principles). Presentation of 2 papers;

CWIX 2013 Support NATO analysis on trials events; Direct Support of tests between SIACCON2 and GCCS-J;

CAX Forum (ROME 23-26 Sep)

M&S COE - main activities in 2013


VISION

To become a NATO reference to Warfighters in the field of

development ofConcepts,

Weapon Systems andProcedures.

NATO M&S COE


• Facilities

• Capabilities & Standards

• Current activities & projects

• Future

HIC SUNT LEONES


Control Room

Facilities


CAX Education environment

Facilities


Scenario Animator and Generator (SGA)

System Architecture Project and Definition

Trial Monitoring(TM)

Processes and Functional Chains Management

Interface Management Tool(IMT)

Multi Data Link Processor(M-DLP)

Data Recording and Analysis Management System

(DRAMS)

Joint Theater Level Simulation

(JTLS)

Network Modelling & Simulation(OPNET Modeler)

3D ModellingLaser Scanner

Main Capabilities


TM(Trial Monitoring)

3D Visualization

SGA (Scenario Generator

& Animator)

DRAMS (Data Recording and

Analysis Management System)

IMT / MDLP(Interface

Management Tool)

DRAMS: Simulation packets Recording & off-line Analysis SGA: Scenario creation, management and animation3D: Environment and Objects 3D VisualizationTM: Simulated Entities position and movement displayIMT: Technical Messages databaseMDLP: TDL 11 & 16 RX/TX via WAN

Control Room Architecture Design


Supported Standards

Scenario Tactical Data Link

• DIS (IEEE 1278.1A) • SIMPLE (Stanag 5602)

• HLA (MAK RTI 1.3) • JREAP

• HLA (IEEE 1516, RPR-FOM v2.0)

Time Synchronization Database replication

• NTP • MIP-DEM block 2 and block 3

Voice Formatted data and services

• DIS (ASTi components) • Adapt3

• HLA (ASTi components) • OTHGold

• VoIP • SOA

• DDS


CAX Operator Certification Course

M&S Basic and advanced Course

CAX Operators to NRF Exercises

Simulation support to Crisis management exercise conducted by the NDC (NDMX)

Alternative Analysis Pilot Course

EDUCATION & TRAINING

ANALYSIS & LESSONS LEARNED (A&LL)

CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT & EXPERIMENTATION

DOCTRINE DEVELOPMENT, STANDARDS & INTEROPERABILITY

Support to Coalition Warrior Interoperability eXercise

Participation to LL conference

Main current activities & projects

Coordination with ACT / JALLC

Build up of the Community of interest

Support to ACT in NTF experiment

Contribution to the ACT CD&E yearly cycle

COE and Industry Battle Labs Federation

Participation to NMSG activity

Cooperation with JCBRN COE

CAX Forum

Interoperability Trials between ITA army C2 and GCCS-J . To be continued also inside CWIX 2013

ITEC/ITSEC participation

WHITE = JTLS related


NATO CAX Operator Certification Course

April 2011June 2012May 2013



• Dec 2010 (Steadfast Juno)

• May 2011 (Steadfast Joist)

• Nov 2011 (Steadfast Juncture)

• May 2012 (Steadfast Joist)

• Nov 2012 (Steadfast Juncture)

Support to Steadfast series Exercises


• Mar 2013 (Naples Vision)

• Nov 2013 (Steadfast Jazz)

• 2014 = 4 Major Ex


NATO CAX Forum

AIMExchange of information and "best practices" among the staffs of NATO and national simulation/exercise centres.

FOCUS technical issues and operating

procedures related to simulation-based exercises and

training support.



NATO Modelling & Simulation Centre of ExcellencePiazza Villoresi, 1 – 00141 Rome (Italy)

NATO CAX Forum


7th NATO CAX Forum

Rome, September 24 – 27, 2012




NATO CAX Forum

AIM: Exchange of information and "best practices" among the staffs of

NATO and national simulation/exercise centres.

FOCUS: technical issues and operating procedures related to simulation-based exercises and

training support.

8th NATO CAX Forum

Rome, September 23-26, 2013



NATO M&S Basic Course

AIM: basic education in the field of M&S;& fundamental tools to plan, organize and execute M&S exercises oriented to NATO &PfP military purposes.

TARGET: audience supposed to beinvolved in planning and executing M&S exercises and which needs to get the fundamental knowledge to organize NATO military M&S applications



Program

• Introduction to Modelling & Simulation• Model and Model Hierarchy• Modelling & Simulation in Defence, LVC• Skill Trainer – Cdr & HQ Training – Experimentation• Simulation Verification & Validation – The Modelling Cycle• Human Factors – Human Modelling in Simulation• Deterministic Models / Probabilistic or Stochastic Models• Discrete and Continuous Simulation• Introduction to probability• Activity Cycle diagram• Computer Generated Forces, Synthetic Environment• Wargaming/Seminar Wargame• Simulation Based Acquisition• Exercises

M&S Basic Course

Rome, October 2012

3 days course






• Develop a Model for JTLS

• Design of M&S Experiments with JTLS

• Observe Random

Parameters and Change Random Values in JTLS by using DDS



DTE SEESIM 12 NATO Training Federation Integration test


Future

• JTLS integration with other models and simulation systems

• Eye on development efforts and plan to use JCATS and JTLS together, possibly within NTF

• Keep on with JTLS upgrades to future version

• Attending to MSG task group meetings.


QUESTIONS?COL Stefano NICOLO’

[email protected] Phone +39 0646914361

LTC Stefano GIACOMOZZIDistributed Simulation

BranchScenario Mgmt & Doctrine

Impl. Section [email protected]

a.itDuty Phone +39

0646914360


NATO M&S COE

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