Experiences in the Development of EXC3ITE-Based HLA-Compliant Simulation Capabilities

摘要

Program Takari's Experimental C3I Technology Environment (EXC3ITE) will be key to the establishment of modelling and simulation architectures, practices and capabilities that are integrated with real C3I systems to support a range of military experimentation. The U.S. High Level Architecture (HLA) is one component of an emerging encapsulation and architectural standard for simulation that has been mandated within the U.S. DoD. EXC3ITE and the HLA share two main principles of interoperability and reuse; they are both middleware- rich. This commonality needs to be exploited in order to make best use of the HLA standard. EXC3ITE-based HLA-compliant simulation capabilities were recently developed employing a combination of Adacel Technologies and Aspect Computing staff. This report describes the capabilities developed and experiences gained and raises issues and recommendations on the way ahead for EXC3ITE-based simulation and synthetic environments.