NATO M&S Centre of Excellence - Piazza Villoresi 1, I-00141 ROME
Outlines
• Why a COE
• NATO MS COE
• Facilities
• Key points
• Capabilities
& Standards
• Way ahead
• Vision
• Current
activities &
projects
• Future
NATO M&S Centre of Excellence - Piazza Villoresi 1, I-00141 ROME
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.
NATO M&S Centre of Excellence - Piazza Villoresi 1, I-00141 ROME
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 M&S Centre of Excellence - Piazza Villoresi 1, I-00141 ROME
MP COE
Bydgoszcz, POL
MW COE
Ljubljana, SVN
CMDR COE
Sofia, BGR
Establishing
COEs
NATO M&S Centre of Excellence - Piazza Villoresi 1, I-00141 ROME
It is the 17th NATO accredited COE
NATO M&S Centre of Excellence - Piazza Villoresi 1, I-00141 ROME
NATO M&S Centre of Excellence - Piazza Villoresi 1, I-00141 ROME
NATO M&S Centre of Excellence - Piazza Villoresi 1, I-00141 ROME
DIRECTORATE
(8)
Doctrine, E & T
Branch (7)
Distributed Simulation
Branch (11)
CD&E
Branch (10)
Support Branch
(8)
Doctrine,
Standards &
Methodology
Scenario Mgmt &
Doctrine Implem.
Architecture
Definition &
Verification
CIS
Modelling, E&T
Support
Data Management
Operational
Research
Personnel &
Admin Support
Human Factors &
Limitations
Model Design &
Development
Simulation Based
Acquisition
Data
A & LL
NATO M&S Centre of Excellence - Piazza Villoresi 1, I-00141 ROME
 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.
NATO M&S Centre of Excellence - Piazza Villoresi 1, I-00141 ROME
 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.
NATO M&S Centre of Excellence - Piazza Villoresi 1, I-00141 ROME
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 Centre of Excellence - Piazza Villoresi 1, I-00141 ROME
VISION
To become a NATO reference to
Warfighters in the field of
development of
Concepts,
Weapon Systems and
Procedures.
NATO M&S Centre of Excellence - Piazza Villoresi 1, I-00141 ROME
• Facilities
• Capabilities &
Standards
• Current activities
& projects
• Future
NATO M&S Centre of Excellence - Piazza Villoresi 1, I-00141 ROME
NATO M&S Centre of Excellence - Piazza Villoresi 1, I-00141 ROME
NATO M&S Centre of Excellence - Piazza Villoresi 1, I-00141 ROME
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
NATO M&S Centre of Excellence - Piazza Villoresi 1, I-00141 ROME
DRAMS
SGA
(Data Recording and (Scenario Generator
Analysis Management
& Animator)
System)
DRAMS:
SGA:
3D:
TM:
IMT:
MDLP:
3D
TM
Visualization
(Trial Monitoring)
Simulation packets Recording & off-line Analysis
Scenario creation, management and animation
Environment and Objects 3D Visualization
Simulated Entities position and movement display
Technical Messages database
TDL 11 & 16 RX/TX via WAN
NATO M&S Centre of Excellence - Piazza Villoresi 1, I-00141 ROME
IMT / MDLP
(Interface
Management Tool)
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
• NTP
Database replication
• MIP-DEM block 2 and block 3
Voice
Formatted data and services
• DIS (ASTi components)
• Adapt3
• HLA (ASTi components)
• OTHGold
• VoIP
• SOA
• DDS
NATO M&S Centre of Excellence - Piazza Villoresi 1, I-00141 ROME
CAX Operator
Certification
Course
M&S Basic and
advanced Course
CAX Operators to
NRF Exercises
WHITE = JTLS related
Support to Coalition
Warrior
Interoperability
eXercise
Support to ACT in
NTF experiment
Contribution to the
ACT CD&E yearly
cycle
Participation to LL
conference
COE and Industry
Battle Labs
Federation
Coordination with
ACT / JALLC
Participation to
NMSG activity
Build up of the
Community of
interest
Cooperation with
JCBRN COE
Alternative Analysis
Pilot Course
NATO M&S Centre of Excellence - Piazza Villoresi 1, I-00141 ROME
CAX Forum
Interoperability
Trials between ITA
army C2 and GCCS-J
. To be continued
also inside CWIX
2013
ITEC/ITSEC
participation
Simulation support
to Crisis
management
exercise conducted
by the NDC (NDMX)
NATO M&S Centre of Excellence - Piazza Villoresi 1, I-00141 ROME
NATO M&S Centre of Excellence - Piazza Villoresi 1, I-00141 ROME
NATO M&S Centre of Excellence - Piazza Villoresi 1, I-00141 ROME
Modelling
& Simulation
of 1,
Excellence
NATONATO
M&S Centre
of Excellence
- PiazzaCentre
Villoresi
I-00141 ROME
Piazza Villoresi, 1 – 00141 Rome (Italy)
Modelling
& Simulation
of 1,
Excellence
NATONATO
M&S Centre
of Excellence
- PiazzaCentre
Villoresi
I-00141 ROME
Piazza Villoresi, 1 – 00141 Rome (Italy)
NATO M&S Centre of Excellence - Piazza Villoresi 1, I-00141 ROME
Program
M&S Basic Course
Rome, October 2012
3 days course
• 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
NATO M&S Centre of Excellence - Piazza Villoresi 1, I-00141 ROME
• Develop a Model for
JTLS
• Design of M&S
Experiments with JTLS
• Observe Random
Parameters and Change
Random Values in JTLS
by using DDS
NATO M&S Centre of Excellence - Piazza Villoresi 1, I-00141 ROME
NATO M&S Centre of Excellence - Piazza Villoresi 1, I-00141 ROME
NATO M&S Centre of Excellence - Piazza Villoresi 1, I-00141 ROME
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 Centre of Excellence - Piazza Villoresi 1, I-00141 ROME
NATO M&S Centre of Excellence - Piazza Villoresi 1, I-00141 ROME