NATO M&S COE

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

WHY A COE? A COE is generally a result of an identified shortfall in NATO’s capabilities. MCM-236-03 “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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

M&S COE - main activities in 2013 Support to Alternative Analysis Pilot Course (ROME 28/1- 8/2) ITEC 2013 (ROME 22-24 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 23-26 Sep)

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

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

Facilities Control Room

CAX Education environment Facilities CAX Education environment

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

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

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

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

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

Main current activities & projects Support to Steadfast series Exercises Dec 2010 (Steadfast Juno) May 2011 (Steadfast Joist) Nov 2011 (Steadfast Juncture) May 2012 (Steadfast Joist) Nov 2012 (Steadfast Juncture) Mar 2013 (Naples Vision) Nov 2013 (Steadfast Jazz) 2014 = 4 Major Ex

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.

Main current activities & projects NATO CAX Forum NATO Modelling & Simulation Centre of Excellence Piazza Villoresi, 1 – 00141 Rome (Italy) 7th NATO CAX Forum Rome, September 24 – 27, 2012 NATO Modelling & Simulation Centre of Excellence Piazza Villoresi, 1 – 00141 Rome (Italy)

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 – 00141 Rome (Italy)

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

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

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

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

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.

QUESTIONS? COL Stefano NICOLO’ Director sesto.mes.direttore@smd.difesa.it Duty Phone +39 0646914361 LTC Stefano GIACOMOZZI Distributed Simulation Branch Scenario Mgmt & Doctrine Impl. Section Chief sesto.mes.1sz@smd.difesa.it Duty Phone +39 0646914360

NATO M&S COE