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Coalition Battle Management Language

International Collaborative Activities

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 MSG-085 C2-Simulation Interoperation  Why coalition activities ?  International initiatives

 COMELEC AHWG M&S  SAFIR experimentation  TTC Programme  ANNC Programme

 Way forward

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MSG-085 A follow Technical Activity to MSG-048

MSG-048 Focused on assessment and requirements for C-BML

MSG-085 Focus on advancing toward operational employment

MSG-048 From 2006-2010, MSG-048 played a significant role in

advancing the state-of-the-art of C-BML and communicating the results to the community.

• Demonstration event in 2007
• Experimentation event in 2008
• Final Experimentation event in 2009
• MSG-079 C-BML Workshop, Feb 2010
• MSG-048 Final Report
• Numerous SISO Papers, NMSG Papers ...

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CAN (Co-Chair) FRA (Co-Chair)

AUS (Observer) BEL DEU DNK ESP GBR ITA NLD NOR SWE TUR USA

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Assess the operational relevance of C-BML while contributing to C2-Simulation standardization and assist in increasing the Technical Readiness Level of C-BML technology to a level consistent with

• perational employment by stakeholders.

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BML Agreement Activities

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 Multi lateral operational organizations

 FRA-DEU Brigade, EUROCORPS, DEU-NLD Corps

 Multi-state Coalition Forces to support UN resolutions

 Operation Hamattan (FRA), Odyssey Dawn USA), Mobile (CAN),

Ellamy (GBR)

 Existing MOU, DEA, TA, PA as framework to ease

cooperation between nations

 TTCP, COMELEC, TRDP, …

 Development of common understanding and vision for

the future

 SMEs in the loop

 Strong willing from key leaders

 Recent Signature of Defense Agreement

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COMELEC AHWG M&S

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COMELEC AHWG M&S

 The AHWG M&S objective is to leverage the use of

simulation for operational applications for the benefit of the German and French armed forces, in

• rder:

 to assist the military community in assessing and

adopting simulation in order to ease and improve current activities as well as to solve existing issues

 to help the armed forces to better express and refine

their requirements in demonstrating the possible use of simulation for these purposes

 to address military concerns when technology and

standards are mature enough to be deployed for

• perational application domains

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COMELEC AHWG M&S

 The AHWG M&S has to perform experimentations to

demonstrate the real benefits of the architectures and processes under assessment. Demonstrations to the military end-users are also required to capture collections of requirements and to drive the way ahead

 It addresses all relevant topics dealing with the operational

use of simulation :

 Simulation to simulation connection  C2 systems and simulation interoperability  Database generation  Validation and verification of simulation models  Modeling of operational tactics and procedures  Application domains such as decision support, mission rehearsal,

mission planning, training, after-action review

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 Current statement: Explore and improve technical

possibilities for automated transfer of data between French an German information systems and simulation systems

 Current status:

 Focus on the usage of C-BML  Potential users are national troops as well as bilateral organisations

(French / German Brigade and EUROCORPS)

 Experimentations performed since 2005  Demonstration to French / German Brigade in January 2011  User confirmes the potential for improvements in future operations

COMELEC AHWG M&S

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 Assess C-BML technology to

 identify gaps and propose improvements  develop procedures for a smooth use  demonstrate its capabilities to fulfill military requirements

 Experiment relevant military uses-cases where

C-BML would benefit to the commander in

 improving staff activities  saving resources and time

AHWG 2010 Experimentation (1/2)

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 Two military uses-cases

 Planning  Mission rehearsal (training)

 Two architectures involving German and French

 C2 systems: HEROS and C2LG C2 surrogate - SICF  Simulations: KORA – APLET

 Armed Forces officers from

 German Center for transformation  French Doctrine command

AHWG 2010 Experimentation (2/2)

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First use-case: Planning

G2 ¡Cell ¡ Simula,on ¡

APLET ¡ Execute COA tasks and generate reports

CBML Reports CBML Orders

G3 ¡Planning ¡Cell ¡

HEROS ¡/ ¡C2LG ¡ Develop Opposite Forces COAs Develop Friendly COAs

COAs Assessment

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Second use-case: Mission rehearsal

HEROS ¡ SICF ¡

Exercice ¡ Control ¡ Simula,on ¡

KORA ¡

Command Friendly subordinates Execute tasks and generate reports Check the achievement of the desired end state

CBML Reports CBML Reports CBML Orders CBML Orders

Opposite ¡Forces ¡

Command the

• pposite Forces

Mission ¡ Rehearsal ¡ Audience ¡

Ground ¡truth ¡ ¡

Chief ¡of ¡Staff ¡

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Scenario

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Terrain Afghanistan

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RC North which is the German area (Mazar e Sharif)

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Sand Box is 60km*60 km

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Left bottom: 36°31’N 66°35’E – Right Upper: 37°10’N 67°45’E

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Size of the Forces

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FRA-DEU Coalition Brigade

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1 FRA Infantry battalion and 1 DEU Infantry battalion

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Regional Command Order

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Gain control of an area

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Opposite Assessment

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Option 1: overall harassment (ambush, traps, skirmishing actions, suicide attacks, …)

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Option 2: Tactical withdraw and counter attack (control population, recce, scouting actions, Cie ambush, …)

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Sand Box

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First Course of Action

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Second Course of Action

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Technical standpoint

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Develop Systems Initialization using MSDL

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Improve reports (tasks, …) and orders (FRAGO, …)

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Identify the nationality of an order

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Enrich list of actions

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Synchronize actions already pushed by different commanders

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Synchronize command agent based on reports

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Gain more automation for simulation to execute orders

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Develop reference interface agreements

Way forward

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TECHNICAL ARRANGEMENT SAFIR

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Combined, Joint Expeditionary Force (CJEF)

 Wide range of scenarios, from Non-combatant Evacuation Operations

(NEO) to High Intensity (HI)

 Three services (land component at brigade level)  Permanent capability for bilateral, NATO, UN or coalition operations  Align concepts, doctrines & procedures  Develop compatible/interoperable C2 assets  Share training, courseware, …

A military capability Along the six lines of development (‘DORESE’) With the British, within NATO & … under US umbrella

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Aim of SAFIR Project

 The aim of the SAFIR project is to develop and demonstrate a sustainable

distributed simulation capability to support UK/FR experimentation and training exercises

 The ultimate goal is to identify and document the requirements for a permanent

Anglo-French distributed experimentation, mission planning and rehearsal capability

 Operational Objective: To conduct experimentation and support military

training exercises through simulation to enhance UK/FR force interoperability and readiness

 Experimentation Objectives: To conduct visualisation and exploratory

experiments to evaluate UK/FR operational architectures and interoperability

 Simulation Objectives: To initiate a permanent simulation capability between

UK and France that allows distributed experimentation and training

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Exercise Organization

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Mission planning at Brigade level

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Mission planning at Battalion level

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Distributed Training – LOCON Downsizing

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The Technical Cooperation Programme / C-BML Initiatives

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TTCP C2-Sim Workshop

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3 day workshop held at M&SCO, nr Washington, March 2011

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30+ participants from AUS, CAN, GBR & USA

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Government, Military, Academia, Industry; both M&S and C2 specialists

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Themes:

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Technology transfer between C2, Sim & Autonomous Robotic Systems

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Live/Virtual control for unmanned robotic platforms

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Sensor models integration into C2

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Cyber/communications effects

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Integrated initialisation

 Workshop built upon the recommendations of MSG-091

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Workshop presentations

 Challenges in the field of C2-Sim interoperability  MSG-085, MSG-091, MSDL, SIMCI, CBMS  SISO C-BML PDG activities  Maritime simulation requirements to support C2  Exploitation activities  C-BML for autonomous systems  Sensor-C2 Simulation integration  Sensor modelling activities  Rapid data generation  SIMCI initialisation

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Workshop Outcomes

 Understanding of common operational & technical problems,

e.g.:

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Initialisation

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Communication of information between C2 & Sim

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Wider-ranging issues such as standardised data

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Involvement of C2 community

 Potential cooperation activities identified  Workshop report being written by Dr Fawzi Hassaine (CAN) &

Bharat Patel (GBR) to be presented at TTCP annual council meeting, April 2011

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The Anglo/Netherlands/Norwegian Collaboration (ANNC) Programme

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ANNCP BML capable CGF

 Both countries have been participating in NATO BML

activities since 2006 (ET-016/MSG-048/MSG-085)

 Emphasis on C-BML interfaces to national C2IS

 Joint TNO (NLD) and FFI (NOR) activity under the ANNC

Programme

 Project started in January 2011 for two years  Expected C-BML initial simulation capability in 2011

 The goal is to perform research on BML capable

constructive simulation using agent systems

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Approach

 Extending COTS CGF (VR-Forces) with C2 agents  Two different agent modelling paradigms will be researched

 Belief-Desire-Intention (BDI) (NLD) and  Context-based Reasoning (CxBR) (NOR)

C-­‑BML ¡

A P I ¡

Agent ¡ ¡ framework ¡ VR-­‑Forces ¡

C-­‑BML ¡orders ¡ & ¡requests ¡ C-­‑BML ¡Reports ¡ Low ¡level ¡ ¡ commands ¡ Low ¡level ¡reports ¡ C-­‑BML ¡gateway ¡ C2 ¡ Agents ¡ HLA ¡ NORTaC-­‑C2IS ¡ ISIS-­‑C2IS ¡

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BDI: Belief Desire Intention Intelligent Agents

Belief: agent has knowledge about relevant environmental states Desire: agent wants to reach a certain goal in environmental states Intent: agent performs an action to reach the goal Example: room thermostat Belief: temperature from sensor (eg. 19° C) Desire: required temperature (eg. 20° C) Intent: switch on heater JADEX implementation framework: Belief, Goal (Desire), Plan (Intent, action) Events are used between agents to trigger plans

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Context-Based Reasoning (CxBR)

 CxBR is a method for modeling

tactical behavior

 Encapsulates behavior into

contexts

 CxBR defines a mission that is

represented by a hierarchy of contexts, and rules that define transitions between contexts

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International Collaborative Activities

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Way forward

 International Collaborative Activities will follow on

 2013/2014 NATO MSG-085 completion  Until it will be deployed at FRA-DEU Brigade with

COMELEC AHWG M&S support

 Execution of Rochambeau 2014 exercice MOU

Cooperative Defense Research and Technology

 TTCP with potential cooperation activities identified that

should be detailed in near future

 Under ANNC

 Opportunities also may raise between Nations and/or with

Organizations according to National campaign plans

 IEEE, STANAG must be an achievable goal and a key of

success

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