1. 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

2. 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

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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 It will be completed 2010

6. 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

7. 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.

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

9. 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

10. 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.

11. 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.

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

13. 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

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

15. 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

16. 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

17. 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

18. 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

19. 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.

20. 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

21. 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.

22. NETN Facility Object Class

23. 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

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

25. 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

26. 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

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

28. 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 ( )
MSG-068 Final Demonstration (Fall 2010)
NETN Reference Federation Agreements Document and FOM (Fall 2010)
Use in Snow Leopard and national initiatives

29. POCs Logistics FOM Module Team
Rachid Khayari, Team Lead, IABG,
Konradin Keller, IABG,
Klaus Greiwe, CAE,
Peter Meyer zu Drewer, CAE.
Torbjörn Hulten,
Andy Bowers, MITRE,
Jean-Pierre Faye, ThalesRaytheon,
Lennart Olsson, Pitch,
MSG-068 Management
Björn Löfstrand, Pitch, FAFD Technical Subgroup Lead
Hans Jense, NC3A, MSG-068 Technical Group Lead
Erdal Cayirci, JWC, MSG-068 Chairman