Towards a Maritime Domain Extension to Coalition Battle Management Lan-guage: Initial Findings and Way Forward

摘要

This paper describes initial findings of a multi-national research effort within the NATO Modeling and Simulation Group Technical Activity 085 (MSG-085) Standardization for C2-Simulation Interoperation, to investigate the use of Coalition Battle Management Language (C-BML) in the maritime domain. The purpose of the effort is to develop a Maritime extension to C-BML that will be used for expressing and exchanging plans, orders and reports specific to the Maritime domain. The current research and experimentation described in this paper cover the exchange of selected parts of two naval operational messages: Operational General Matters (OPGEN) and Operational Tasking of Anti-Surface Warfare (OPTASK ASUW). A set of information exchange requirements has been developed based on an operational scenario including a Naval Coalition Task Force (CTF) conducting naval operations. Initial findings and lessons learned presented in this paper will be used to create a more comprehensive Maritime C-BML extension to be tested during the final experimentation event of MSG-085.