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Coalition Battle Management Language

International Collaborative Activities

DGA \ DS \ CATOD Diapositive N°2 MINISTÈRE DE LA DÉFENSE

 MSG-085 C2-Simulation Interoperation

 Why coalition activities ?

  International initiatives   COMELEC AHWG M&S

  SAFIR experimentation

  TTC Programme

  ANNC Programme

 Way forward


MSG-085 A follow Technical Activity to MSG-048 MSG-048 Focused on assessment and requirements for C-BML MSG-085 Focus on advancing toward operational employment

MSG-048 From 2006-2010, MSG-048 played a significant role in advancing the state-of-the-art of C-BML and communicating the results to the community. •  Demonstration event in 2007 •  Experimentation event in 2008 •  Final Experimentation event in 2009 •  MSG-079 C-BML Workshop, Feb 2010 •  MSG-048 Final Report •  Numerous SISO Papers, NMSG Papers ...


CAN (Co-Chair) FRA (Co-Chair)

AUS (Observer) BEL

DEU DNK

ESP GBR

ITA NLD

NOR SWE

TUR USA


Assess the operational relevance of C-BML while contributing to C2-Simulation standardization and assist in increasing the Technical Readiness Level of C-BML technology to a level consistent with operational employment by stakeholders.


BML Agreement Activities


  Multi lateral operational organizations   FRA-DEU Brigade, EUROCORPS, DEU-NLD Corps

  Multi-state Coalition Forces to support UN resolutions   Operation Hamattan (FRA), Odyssey Dawn USA), Mobile (CAN),

Ellamy (GBR)

  Existing MOU, DEA, TA, PA as framework to ease cooperation between nations

  TTCP, COMELEC, TRDP, …

  Development of common understanding and vision for the future

  SMEs in the loop

  Strong willing from key leaders   Recent Signature of Defense Agreement


COMELEC AHWG M&S


COMELEC AHWG M&S

 The AHWG M&S objective is to leverage the use of simulation for operational applications for the benefit of the German and French armed forces, in order:

  to assist the military community in assessing and adopting simulation in order to ease and improve current activities as well as to solve existing issues

  to help the armed forces to better express and refine their requirements in demonstrating the possible use of simulation for these purposes

  to address military concerns when technology and standards are mature enough to be deployed for operational application domains


COMELEC AHWG M&S

  The AHWG M&S has to perform experimentations to demonstrate the real benefits of the architectures and processes under assessment. Demonstrations to the military end-users are also required to capture collections of requirements and to drive the way ahead

  It addresses all relevant topics dealing with the operational use of simulation :

  Simulation to simulation connection   C2 systems and simulation interoperability   Database generation   Validation and verification of simulation models   Modeling of operational tactics and procedures   Application domains such as decision support, mission rehearsal,

mission planning, training, after-action review


Folie 14

  Current statement: Explore and improve technical possibilities for automated transfer of data between French an German information systems and simulation systems

  Current status:   Focus on the usage of C-BML

  Potential users are national troops as well as bilateral organisations (French / German Brigade and EUROCORPS)

  Experimentations performed since 2005   Demonstration to French / German Brigade in January 2011

  User confirmes the potential for improvements in future operations

COMELEC AHWG M&S


 Assess C-BML technology to   identify gaps and propose improvements

  develop procedures for a smooth use

  demonstrate its capabilities to fulfill military requirements

 Experiment relevant military uses-cases where C-BML would benefit to the commander in

  improving staff activities

  saving resources and time

AHWG 2010 Experimentation (1/2)


 Two military uses-cases   Planning

  Mission rehearsal (training)

 Two architectures involving German and French   C2 systems: HEROS and C2LG C2 surrogate - SICF

  Simulations: KORA – APLET

 Armed Forces officers from   German Center for transformation

  French Doctrine command

AHWG 2010 Experimentation (2/2)


First use-case: Planning

G2 Cell

Simula,on

APLET

Execute COA tasks and generate reports

CBML Reports CBML

Orders

G3 Planning Cell HEROS / C2LG

Develop Opposite Forces COAs

Develop Friendly COAs

COAs Assessment


Second use-case: Mission rehearsal

HEROS SICF

Exercice Control

Simula,on KORA

Command Friendly subordinates

Execute tasks and generate reports

Check the achievement of the desired end state

CBML Reports

CBML Reports

CBML Orders

CBML Orders

Opposite Forces Command the opposite Forces

Mission Rehearsal Audience

Ground truth Chief of Staff


Scenario

  Terrain Afghanistan   RC North which is the German area (Mazar e Sharif)   Sand Box is 60km*60 km   Left bottom: 36°31’N 66°35’E – Right Upper: 37°10’N 67°45’E

  Size of the Forces   FRA-DEU Coalition Brigade   1 FRA Infantry battalion and 1 DEU Infantry battalion

  Regional Command Order   Gain control of an area

  Opposite Assessment   Option 1: overall harassment (ambush, traps, skirmishing actions, suicide

attacks, …)   Option 2: Tactical withdraw and counter attack (control population, recce,

scouting actions, Cie ambush, …)


Sand Box


First Course of Action


Second Course of Action


  Technical standpoint   Develop Systems Initialization using MSDL   Improve reports (tasks, …) and orders (FRAGO, …)   Identify the nationality of an order   Enrich list of actions   Synchronize actions already pushed by different

commanders   Synchronize command agent based on reports   Gain more automation for simulation to execute orders   Develop reference interface agreements

Way forward


TECHNICAL ARRANGEMENT SAFIR


Combined, Joint Expeditionary Force (CJEF)

  Wide range of scenarios, from Non-combatant Evacuation Operations (NEO) to High Intensity (HI)

  Three services (land component at brigade level)

  Permanent capability for bilateral, NATO, UN or coalition operations

  Align concepts, doctrines & procedures

  Develop compatible/interoperable C2 assets   Share training, courseware, …

A military capability

Along the six lines of development (‘DORESE’)

With the British, within NATO & … under US umbrella


Aim of SAFIR Project

  The aim of the SAFIR project is to develop and demonstrate a sustainable distributed simulation capability to support UK/FR experimentation and training exercises

  The ultimate goal is to identify and document the requirements for a permanent Anglo-French distributed experimentation, mission planning and rehearsal capability

  Operational Objective: To conduct experimentation and support military training exercises through simulation to enhance UK/FR force interoperability and readiness

  Experimentation Objectives: To conduct visualisation and exploratory experiments to evaluate UK/FR operational architectures and interoperability

  Simulation Objectives: To initiate a permanent simulation capability between UK and France that allows distributed experimentation and training


Exercise Organization


Mission planning at Brigade level


Mission planning at Battalion level


Distributed Training – LOCON Downsizing


The Technical Cooperation Programme / C-BML Initiatives


TTCP C2-Sim Workshop

  3 day workshop held at M&SCO, nr Washington, March 2011   30+ participants from AUS, CAN, GBR & USA

  Government, Military, Academia, Industry; both M&S and C2 specialists

  Themes:   Technology transfer between C2, Sim & Autonomous Robotic

Systems   Live/Virtual control for unmanned robotic platforms   Sensor models integration into C2   Cyber/communications effects   Integrated initialisation

  Workshop built upon the recommendations of MSG-091


Workshop presentations

  Challenges in the field of C2-Sim interoperability   MSG-085, MSG-091, MSDL, SIMCI, CBMS   SISO C-BML PDG activities   Maritime simulation requirements to support C2   Exploitation activities   C-BML for autonomous systems   Sensor-C2 Simulation integration   Sensor modelling activities   Rapid data generation   SIMCI initialisation


Workshop Outcomes

  Understanding of common operational & technical problems, e.g.:   Initialisation   Communication of information between C2 & Sim   Wider-ranging issues such as standardised data   Involvement of C2 community

  Potential cooperation activities identified   Workshop report being written by Dr Fawzi Hassaine (CAN) &

Bharat Patel (GBR) to be presented at TTCP annual council meeting, April 2011


The Anglo/Netherlands/Norwegian Collaboration (ANNC) Programme


ANNCP BML capable CGF

  Both countries have been participating in NATO BML activities since 2006 (ET-016/MSG-048/MSG-085)

  Emphasis on C-BML interfaces to national C2IS   Joint TNO (NLD) and FFI (NOR) activity under the ANNC

Programme   Project started in January 2011 for two years

  Expected C-BML initial simulation capability in 2011

  The goal is to perform research on BML capable constructive simulation using agent systems


Approach

  Extending COTS CGF (VR-Forces) with C2 agents   Two different agent modelling paradigms will be researched

  Belief-Desire-Intention (BDI) (NLD) and   Context-based Reasoning (CxBR) (NOR)

C-‐BML API

Agent framework

VR-‐Forces

C-‐BML orders & requests

C-‐BML Reports

Low level commands

Low level reports

C-‐BML gateway

C2 Agents

HLA

NORTaC-‐C2IS

ISIS-‐C2IS


BDI: Belief Desire Intention Intelligent Agents

"  Belief: agent has knowledge about relevant environmental states

"  Desire: agent wants to reach a certain goal in environmental states

"  Intent: agent performs an action to reach the goal Example: room thermostat "  Belief: temperature from sensor (eg. 19° C) "  Desire: required temperature (eg. 20° C) "  Intent: switch on heater JADEX implementation framework: "  Belief, Goal (Desire), Plan (Intent, action) "  Events are used between agents to trigger plans


Context-Based Reasoning (CxBR)

  CxBR is a method for modeling tactical behavior

  Encapsulates behavior into contexts

  CxBR defines a mission that is represented by a hierarchy of contexts, and rules that define transitions between contexts


International Collaborative Activities


Way forward

  International Collaborative Activities will follow on   2013/2014 NATO MSG-085 completion   Until it will be deployed at FRA-DEU Brigade with

COMELEC AHWG M&S support   Execution of Rochambeau 2014 exercice MOU

Cooperative Defense Research and Technology   TTCP with potential cooperation activities identified that

should be detailed in near future   Under ANNC

  Opportunities also may raise between Nations and/or with Organizations according to National campaign plans

  IEEE, STANAG must be an achievable goal and a key of success

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