Logistics FOM Module in Snow Leopard: Recommendations by MSG-068 NATO Education and Training Network Task Group Björn Löftstrand, Pitch Technologies Rachid Khayari, Konradin Keller, IABG Klaus Greiwe, Peter Meyer zu Drewer, CAE Torbjörn Hultén, BAE Systems C-ITS Andy Bowers, MITRE Jean-Pierre Faye, ThalesRaytheonSystems

Outline What is Snow Leopard? What is MSG-068 NETN? MSG-068 Federation Architecture and Design Activities Service Consumer-Provider Pattern Logistics FOM Module Summary

Snow Leopard Vision To deliver to NATO and Partners a persistent, distributed and joint training capability able to support training from operational to tactical level across the full spectrum of operations, while leveraging existing national expertise and capabilities.

Snow Leopard NATO Allied Command Transformation (ACT) Program Projects NATO Training Federation (NTF) NATO Live Virtual Constructive (NLVC) Shared Scenarios Simulation Advanced Distributed Learning The Snow Leopard Program aim is to deliver to the Alliance and Partners, a persistent, distributed joint education and training capability able to support multi-national and national training spanning the operational and tactical levels across the full spectrum of operations by leveraging, connecting, and harmonizing national expertise, capabilities, and ongoing initiatives.

MSG-068 NETN NETN = NATO Education and Training Network MSG-068 NETN is a technical activity reporting to NATO Modeling and Simulation Group (NMSG) under NATO RTO MSG-068 NETN is the interface between nations and Snow Leopard The MSG-068 recommendations can be exploited by the ACT Snow Leopard Program when establishing the NETN/Snow Leopard capability It was requested by ACT and established by ET-025 of NMSG in 2007. It will be completed 2010

NETN and Snow Leopard The MSG-068 RTO Research Task Group provides recommendations on M&S aspects to be exploited by the ACT Snow Leopard Program when establishing the NETN/Snow Leopard capability Support by: technology- assessments recommendations experimental preparation and risk reduction Feasibility demonstration ACT Vision: Deliver to Alliance and Partners a persistent, distributed training capability able to support training spanning from strategic down to tactical level across the full spectrum of operations, leveraging national expertise and capabilities. Objectives, Military benefit: (Source: MSG-068 (NETN) TOR) 1. Enable joint operational level training for NRF, CJTF and NATO HQs 2. Enable joint tactical level training for Component Command HQs level and down through organically assigned tactical command elements. 3. Enable interoperability between the simulated or emulated national C2 systems and NATO simulation environment. 4. Enable interoperability between NATO and national LVC capabilities in order to support blended training 6

MSG-068 NETN Objectives assess the distributed simulation and learning capabilities that NATO, Partner and Contact Nations, Schools, and Agencies have that could contribute to the development of a NETN capability. recommend and demonstrate a way forward for interoperability, technical standards and architectures to link these training and education centers to provide a persistent capability. identify and recommend roles and responsibilities of the NATO, Partner and Contact Nation organizations responsible for distributing and maintaining M&S capabilities within the scope of NETN.

ACT – Snow Leopard JWC JFTC NC3A RTO NMSG – MSG-068 AUS DEU SWE ROU BGR ESP SVN USA TUR GBR FRA NLD

MSG-068 NETN Organisation Management Group 12 Nations, RTA, ACT, JWC, JFTC, NC3A Technical Group 75+ Technical Experts 3 Subgroups Federation Architecture and FOM Design (FAFD) Subgroup Experimentation and Demonstration Subgroup Shared Scenario Subgroup Federation Architecture and FOM Design (FAFD) Subgroup Develops NETN Federation Architecture and Design Experimentation and Demonstration Subgroup Performs technical experiments and demonstrates the validity of the proposed architecture and design Shared Scenario Subgroup Develops recommendations on standards/processes for scenario reuse and sharing within NETN 9

MSG-068: FAFD TOR Assessment of existing NATO and national FOMs with respect to their applicability for an NETN Reference FOM under particular consideration of LVC connectivity (e.g. aggregate level systems and platform level systems linkage) Based on this assessment (and utilizing classes of the existing FOMs as far as possible) a modular NETN reference FOM and the corresponding FAD documents are to be elaborated and documented. The NATO and national simulation and C2-system candidates for the NETN are to be assessed regarding their compliance to the reference FOM and FAD(s). Based on this assessment necessary adjustments/expansions to the systems considered to be applicable are to be defined and documented.

FAFD Deliverables NETN Reference FAD NETN Reference FOM The NETN Reference Federation Agreements Document is intended to be used as a foundation for developing federation specific agreements. It should be used as a reference and/or template when documenting detailed agreements related to a specific federation and it constituent parts including federates, simulation infrastructure and network. NETN Reference FOM The Reference FAD contains a set of so-called FOM Modules each addressing specific patterns of interoperability to support the distributed simulation. The set of FOM Modules described in the FAD and the accompanying machine readable XML formats is also referred to as the NETN Reference FOM.

FAFD Main Input JMRM (US) P2SN (SWE/US) KOSI (DEU) ALLIANCE (FRA) CASSIOPEA (ESP) RPR-FOM (SISO) Link16 BOM (SISO) ...

FAFD Activities FAFD = Federation Architecture and FOM Design Representation of Aggregate Unit and Interactions Federation Execution Control and Monitoring Transfer of Control Logistics FOM Module NETN Infrastructure LVC Aspects

NETN Infrastructure STANAG 4603 IEEE 1516-2009 (HLA Evolved) HLA IEEE 1516 IEEE 1516-2009 (HLA Evolved) Modular FOMs approach Bridges/Adapters/Filters/Guards DIS, HLA 1.3, IEEE 1516-2000, ... Communication Infrastructure CFBL-net based backbone

NETN FOM Modules RPR-FOM (RPR-FOM v2.0 D17) Link 16 FOM (Link 16 BOM) NETN Service Consumer-Provider NETN Logistics NETN Aggregate NETN Transfer of Control

NETN Reference FOM Module Dependencies NETN Logistics NETN Transfer of Control NETN Service-Consumer Provider NETN Aggregate Link 16 BOM NETN FedEx Ctrl RPR-FOM

New NETN FOM Module Features Service Consumer – Provider interactions to model request, negotiation, and delivery of services Transport-, Repair-, Supply-, Deposit- Logistics services Aggregate Level Combat Interactions Unit-Unit, Unit-Entity, Entity-Unit Laissez Faire based Ground-to-Ground Combat adjudication methodology Modeling of Transfer of Control for Resources and Entities Synchronized Federation Execution Control

Service Consumer-Provider Pattern Service Consumer Federate Service Provide Federate NETN_RequestService NETN_OfferService Negotiation NETN_AcceptService NETN_ServiceStarted Delivery NETN_ServiceCompleted NETN_ServiceReceived Acceptance

Logistics FOM Module Types of Logistics Services currently supported in NETN Supplies; Consumable Material may be supplied from- and stored in Facilities Repair; Damaged material (damaged platforms) is repaired by a maintenance unit nearby. Deposit; Non-Consumable Material (e.g. a platform or unit) is deposited and retrieved at a facility. Transport; Material (consumable and non-consumable) may be transported.

Logistics HLA Interactions Class 1 Class 2 Class 3 NETN_Service NETN_RequestService NETN_RequestSupply   NETN_RequestStorage NETN_RequestRepair NETN_RequestDeposit NETN_RequestEquipment NETN_RequestTransport NETN_OfferService NETN_OfferSupply NETN_OfferRepair NETN_OfferStorage NETN_OfferEquipment NETN_OfferDeposit NETN_OfferTransport NETN_OfferAccept NETN_ServiceStarted NETN_SupplyStarted NETN_StorageStarted NETN_ServiceComplete NETN_DepositComplete NETN_EquipmentComplete NETN_ServiceReceived

Facilities Facilities are the central element in the Logistics FOM through which material can be transferred. Facilities may be created during a simulation or may be a part of the infrastructure (railway station, storage tanks depot, port, etc.). A facility may be part of a unit (ship, etc.). The RPR-FOM v2.0 object class BaseEntity is extended with a subclass NETN_Facility with extended set of attributes.

NETN Facility Object Class

Example: Supplies Pattern Services for resupply of consumable material include: supply service provided by a facility, unit or any battlefield entity with supply capability storage service provided by a facility or means of transportation capable of storing consumable material

Supply Service Service Consumer Service Provider NETN_RequestSupply(SuppliesData) NETN_OfferSupply(SuppliesData) NETN_AcceptOffer NETN_SupplyStarted NETN_ServiceCompleted NETN_ServiceReceived Transfer of supplies complete

Storage Service Service Consumer Service Provider NETN_RequestStorage(SuppliesData) NETN_OfferStorage(SuppliesData) NETN_AcceptOffer NETN_StorageStarted(SuppliesData) NETN_ServiceCompleted NETN_ServiceReceived Transfer of supplies complete

Deposit Pattern Service Consumer Service Provider NETN_RequestDeposit(DepositData) NETN_OfferDeposit(DepositData) NETN_AcceptOffer NETN_DepositStarted NETN_ServiceCompleted Deposit complete NETN_ServiceReceived Transfer of Control Uses ToC pattern

Transport Pattern Service Consumer Service Provider NETN_RequestTransport(TransportData) NETN_OfferTransport(TransportData) NETN_AcceptOffer NETN_TransportStarted NETN_ServiceCompleted Transport complete NETN_ServiceReceived

Summary NATO Education and Traning Network aka. Snow Leopard MSG-068 provides NETN Reference Federation Architecture & Design includning a Modular Reference FOM Modular FOM Approach (HLA Evolved) What’s next Technical tests and experimentation to validate design patterns (2009-2010) MSG-068 Final Demonstration (Fall 2010) NETN Reference Federation Agreements Document and FOM (Fall 2010) Use in Snow Leopard and national initiatives

POCs Logistics FOM Module Team Rachid Khayari, Team Lead, IABG, Khayari@iabg.de Konradin Keller, IABG, Keller@iabg.de Klaus Greiwe, CAE, Klaus.Greiwe@cae.de Peter Meyer zu Drewer, CAE. Peter.MeyerzuDrewer@cae.de Torbjörn Hulten, torbjorn.hulten@baesystems.se Andy Bowers, MITRE, bowersa@mitre.org Jean-Pierre Faye, ThalesRaytheon, Jean-pierre.faye@thalesraytheon-fr.com Lennart Olsson, Pitch, Lennart.Olsson@pitch.se MSG-068 Management Björn Löfstrand, Pitch, FAFD Technical Subgroup Lead Hans Jense, NC3A, MSG-068 Technical Group Lead Erdal Cayirci, JWC, MSG-068 Chairman