Striving for Interoperability: Synthetic Environment Core (SECore)

D.R. Elliott, R.G. Brown, A.J. Masys and B.M. Dillman

Military Modelling and Simulation Symposium (MMS 2008) (MMS 2008)
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, April 14-17, 2007

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Summary

Modelling and Simulation (M&S) technology has become a key military transformation enabler within the Canadian Department of National Defence (DND) and the Canadian Forces (CF). Many M&S applications are undertaken on a standalone basis to address specific issues; however, other applications require a much greater level of composition. Thus, there is a corporate requirement to strive for interoperability.

SECore is a DND initiative designed to enhance interoperability across all M&S application domains by providing a reference baseline of common and crosscutting standards; simulation development processes; collective expertise and experience; and infrastructure in order to improve the efficiency with which simulations are developed and the quality of the simulations. The development of SECore is being coordinated by the DND Synthetic Environment Coordination Office (SECO) with input from the Synthetic Environment Working Group (SEWG), which is a working level group open to all M&S practitioners. Members of SEWG share expertise, experience, and, whenever possible, M&S resources to facilitate coordinated application development and to promote interoperability.

High priority objectives for SECore are the development of a Canadian Reference Federation Object Model (CRFOM); terrain database standards and terrain databases; open source database structures; conceptual models and scenario development; and visualization tools.

The paper describes the development of SECore, implementation issues, and details of its high priority objectives.

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