[Vp-reproduce-subgroup] Simulation Standards

[Morse, Katherine L.]

Thanks to Jacob Barhak for inviting me to participate and provide my perspective on simulation interoperability and standards for supporting it. I’ve held senior leadership positions in the Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization (SISO<https://www.sisostds.org/>) almost since its inception 24 years ago. In that time I’ve led the development of or contributed to several standards. Many of the issues you’re facing right now with getting your simulations to interoperate have been issues for the defense simulation community for a very long time. These issues were the motivation for forming SISO. We’ve developed process and technical solutions to many of them, although we don’t apply them as consistently as we should, resulting in less interoperability than we could achieve. That said, there’s a large body of knowledge from which you might benefit. In reading your discussion traffic, I see that you’re considering applying NASA’s work on VV&A. This is excellent work, which has its roots in the DoD VV&A Recommended Practices Guide (RPG<https://vva.msco.mil/>). Here are some other resources that might prove helpful. For the IEEE ones, you’ll need a subscription to the IEEE Electronic Library (IEL) or to buy them*. The SISO standards are all free to download

  *   Distributed Simulation Engineering and Execution Process (DSEEP<•%09https:/standards.ieee.org/standard/1730-2010.html>)
  *   High Level Architecture (HLA<https://standards.ieee.org/standard/1516_2-2000.html>)
  *   Federation Engineering Agreements Template (FEAT<•%09https:/www.sisostds.org/featprogrammersreference/index.htm>)
  *   Simulation Interoperability Readiness Levels (SIRL<https://www.sisostds.org/StandardsActivities/DevelopmentGroups/SIRLPDG.aspx>)

Additionally, I can provide briefings on standards development in general and SISO in particular if that would be helpful.

The bottom line is that you’re not alone in dealing with these issues, and I’m happy to help.

*I regularly give tutorials on these standards and would be happy to do so for your group if you’re interested.

KLM
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Katherine L. Morse, PhD
IEEE Fellow
Principal Professional Staff, JHU/APL
11100 Johns Hopkins Road
Laurel, MD  20723-6099
(240)917-9602 (w)
(858)775-8651 (m)

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