1. NATO M&S COE

2. Outlines Why a COE NATO MS COE Key points Facilities Way ahead
Vision
Facilities
Capabilities & Standards
Current activities & projects
Future

3. WHY A COE? A COE is generally a result of an
identified shortfall in NATO’s capabilities.
MCM “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.

4. WHY A COE? 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.

5. NATO COEs M&S COE ROME NATO Accredited COEs Establishing COEs CJOS COE
Norfolk, USA
Establishing COEs
CSW COE
Kiel, DEU
JAPCC COE
Kakar, DEU
C2 COE
Ede, NLD
CIMIC COE
Enschede, NLD
NMW COE
Oostende, BEL
MILENG COE
Ingolstadt, DEU
CASPOA COE
Lyon, FRA
C-IED COE
Madrid, ESP
CWO COE
Bodo, NOR
CCD COE
Tallinn, EST
ENSEC COE
Vilnius, LTU
MP COE
Bydgoszcz, POL
JCBRN Defence COE
Vyskov, CZE
EOD COE
Trencin, SVK
MILMED COE
Budapest, HUN
HUMINT COE
Oradea, ROM
MW COE
Ljubljana, SVN
CMDR COE
Sofia, BGR
DAT COE
Ankara, TUR
M&S COE
ROME

6. NATO M&S COE
October 2009
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 2012
The North Atlantic Council activates the Modelling & Simulation Centre of Excellence as an International Military Organization.
a brief update ….
It is the 17th NATO accredited COE

7. M&S COE membership Sponsoring Nations: Italy Czech Republic
USA (Joining)
Nations which showed interest to join the initiative:
Lithuania
Switzerland
Slovenia
Hungary

8. Operational and Functional MOU
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.
Operational and Functional MOU
key points

9. M&S COE Structure and Manning
DIRECTORATE
(8)
Doctrine, E & T
Branch (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 & E
Branch (10)
Architecture Definition & Verification
Operational Research
Simulation Based Acquisition
Data
A & LL
Support Branch
CIS
Personnel &
Admin Support
Total positions: 44

10. 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.

11. 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.

12. M&S COE - main activities in 2013
Support to Alternative Analysis Pilot Course (ROME 28/1- 8/2)
ITEC 2013 (ROME 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 Sep)

13. NATO M&S COE
VISION
To become a NATO reference to Warfighters in the field of development of
Concepts,
Weapon Systems and
Procedures.

14. HIC SUNT LEONES Facilities Capabilities & Standards
Current activities & projects
Future

15. Facilities
Control Room

16. CAX Education environment
Facilities
CAX Education environment

17. Main Capabilities Joint Theater Level Simulation (JTLS)
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 Modelling
Laser Scanner

18. Control Room Architecture Design
DRAMS
(Data Recording and Analysis Management System)
IMT / MDLP
(Interface Management Tool)
SGA
(Scenario Generator
& Animator)
3D Visualization TM
(Trial Monitoring)
DRAMS: Simulation packets Recording & off-line Analysis
SGA: Scenario creation, management and animation
3D: Environment and Objects 3D Visualization
TM: Simulated Entities position and movement display
IMT: Technical Messages database
MDLP: TDL 11 & 16 RX/TX via WAN

19. 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

20. Main current activities & projects
EDUCATION &
TRAINING
ANALYSIS &
LESSONS LEARNED (A&LL)
CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT &
EXPERIMENTATION
DOCTRINE DEVELOPMENT,
STANDARDS & INTEROPERABILITY
Support to ACT in NTF experiment
CAX Operator Certification Course
Support to Coalition Warrior Interoperability eXercise
CAX Forum
Interoperability Trials between ITA army C2 and GCCS-J . To be continued also inside CWIX 2013
Contribution to the ACT CD&E yearly cycle
M&S Basic and advanced Course
COE and Industry Battle Labs Federation
Participation to LL conference
CAX Operators to NRF Exercises
ITEC/ITSEC participation
Coordination with ACT / JALLC
Participation to NMSG activity
Simulation support to Crisis management exercise conducted by the NDC (NDMX)
Build up of the Community of interest
Cooperation with JCBRN COE
Alternative Analysis Pilot Course
WHITE = JTLS related

21. April 2011 June 2012 May 2013 Main current activities & projects
NATO CAX Operator Certification Course
April 2011
June 2012
May 2013

22. Main current activities & projects
Support to Steadfast series Exercises
Dec (Steadfast Juno)
May (Steadfast Joist)
Nov (Steadfast Juncture)
May (Steadfast Joist)
Nov (Steadfast Juncture)
Mar 2013 (Naples Vision)
Nov 2013 (Steadfast Jazz)
2014 = 4 Major Ex

23. Main current activities & projects
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.

24. Main current activities & projects
NATO CAX Forum
NATO Modelling & Simulation Centre of Excellence
Piazza Villoresi, 1 – Rome (Italy)
7th NATO CAX Forum
Rome,
September 24 – 27, 2012
NATO Modelling & Simulation Centre of Excellence
Piazza Villoresi, 1 – Rome (Italy)

25. Main current activities & projects
NATO CAX Forum
8th NATO CAX Forum
Rome,
September 23-26, 2013
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.
NATO Modelling & Simulation Centre of Excellence
Piazza Villoresi, 1 – Rome (Italy)

26. Main current activities & projects
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 be
involved in planning and executing M&S exercises and which needs to get the fundamental knowledge to organize NATO military M&S applications

27. Main current activities & projects
NATO M&S Basic Course
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

28. Main current activities & projects
NATO M&S Basic 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

29. Main current activities & projects
DTE SEESIM 12 NATO Training Federation Integration test

30. 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.

31. QUESTIONS? COL Stefano NICOLO’ Director
Duty Phone
LTC Stefano GIACOMOZZI
Distributed Simulation Branch
Scenario Mgmt & Doctrine
Impl. Section Chief
Duty Phone

32. NATO M&S COE