Technical Course 
MSG-211 

"Modelling and Simulation Standards in NATO Federated Mission Networking"

Organized by the
NATO Modelling & Simulation Group
to be held in

Online – 29-30 April 2024

Check-in will start each day at 12:45 PM CET.  

The meeting will run from 1:00 PM to 5:30 PM each day.

This Lecture Series is open to citizens from NATO,

Partnership-for-Peace (PfP) Nations and Global Partners.

Background

Federated Mission Networking (FMN) is a major NATO thrust to support interoperability on "Day Zero" to enable NATO nations and partners to execute upcoming missions. FMN is not a single network, but rather a networking approach designed to ensure interoperability among nations participating in a coalition, based on agreed standards and practices. To this end, Modeling and Simulation provides a significant part of this capability, incorporating state-of-the-art information technologies and methodologies into integration of systems of systems. NMSG committed to supporting the specification process for M&S-enabled capabilities in the FMN under previous MSG-193 and current MSG-201 (M&S in FMN), spanning a total of four years. The NMSG activities have been designated as Inter-Working-Group M&S Syndicate supporting the work of the FMN Operational Coordination Working Group (OCWG) and Capability Planning Working Group (CPWG).
The M&S Syndicate produces drafts of two requirements documents with each Spiral of the FMN specification process: Procedural Instructions (PI), written from an operational requirements perspective, and Service Instructions (SI), written from a technical requirements perspective. MSG-201 has organized a multinational team to participate in the annual Coalition Warrior Interoperability Exploration, Experimentation, Examination and Exercise (CWIX) to test the ability of the standards and practices specified in the SI, working together, to meet the requirements described in the PI.

Objective

MSG-211 Technical Course instruction in modelling and simulation standards in NATO FMN will provide explanation and exposition of the standards and practices described in FMN PIs and SIs to personnel from across NATO organizations, nations, and partner nations, in particular, the Science and Technology Organization (STO), Allied Command Transformation (ACT), Allied Command Operations (ACO), and supporting organizations and nations participating in NMSG.
Furthermore, the instruction will provide operational and technical information on application of M&S in FMN, building on the successful hybrid approach of MSG-194, Employing the C2-Simulation Interoperation (C2SIM) Standard for Coalition Military Operations and Exercises.

Scientific topics to be covered

The present instruction will offer online presentations in Days 1 and 2 covering the operational considerations and technical standards and practices for M&S in FMN as described in the PIs and SIs, presented by experts with experience in MSG-201 and its CWIX teams. The first two half-day sessions will be followed by a hands-on interactive half-day session on Day 3  providing a level of understanding that is possible only by actually working with the described standards and practices.
Specific standards and practices to be covered will be those in the PI and SI, amplified by CWIX experience. In FMN Spiral 5 these have included Command and Control Systems – Simulatiion Systems Interoperation (C2SIM), High Level Architecture (HLA), the NATO Education and Training Network (NETN) Federation Object Model (FOM) interoperability standard, and cloud computing aspects of Modeling and Simulation as a Service (MSaaS). Presenters in the RTC are significant contributors to PI and SI drafting and/or their CWIX testing. Spiral 6 is likely to build on these with topics such as the SISO Distributed Simulation Engineering and Execution Process (DSEEP) and a broadened set of cloud-based M&S practices.

Deadline

All registered participants will be sent a separate invitation by email with connection details for remote attendance to the 2-day course.

Enrollment for participation in the online sessions will close on 23 April 2024.