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COMMERCE BUSINESS DAILY ISSUE OF FEBRUARY 27,1995 PSA#1291

Electronic Systems Center/AVK, Contracting Division, Command & Control Systems, 20 Schilling Circle, Hanscom AFB, MA 01731-2816

A -- CONCEPT PAPERS FOR OPEN ARCHITECTURES TO JOINT MODELING & SIMULATION TO SUPPORT TRAINING, ANALYSIS, TEST & EVALATION CAPABILIT POC Mr. Steve Meehan, Contracting Officer, 617-377-7391. The military services, joint staff, and office of secretary of defense (OSD) recently signed a joint memorandum of agreement resolving to take a common approach to development of the Joint Simulation System (JSIMS), a critical next generation modeling and simulation (M&S) system. The goal is to integrate the range of missions of the armed forces within a common framework that supports live, virtual, and constructive M&S capabilities. The JSIMS will include man-in-the-loop capability and aggregation and de-aggregation of decisions and simulation at all levels, providing the ability to train down to the individual (agent) level. The common framework, though initially focused on training, will also be adaptable to other M&S applications, such as analysis and testing. The JSIMS domain will include missions across the full range of military operations in which uniformed personnel could be tasked. Specific support requirements include scenario generation, event tracking and archiving, post-processing analysis, and after-action review. Joint Simulation System Joint Program Office (JSIMS JPO) is soliciting for papers and information on products and software architecture designs/implementations to support the development of open systems architecture for a modeling and simulation system that supports joint training and provides an extensible environment for analysis and test and evaluation capabilities. This request is part of an exploration to gain knowledge about open system environments that provide a common set of services necessary to support modeling and simulation applications. These open system environments would need to support three classes of modeling and simulation applications (constructive, virtual, and real) as well as providing the common services (e.g., graphical user interfaces, database management, interprocess communications, network management, security services) necessary in a training environment. JSIMS is interested in open architectures that exist or are currently being implemented. The architectures will support joint modeling and simulations using developed tools, COTS products, and reusable components. The architecture must be targeted for a POSIX compliant distributed workstation environment and must support the use of object oriented programming practices and languages. The response to this synopsis may include papers and/or information on products to support the architecture design/implementation. The response should address the architecture's design, flexibility, performance, extensibility, interoperability across hardware platforms, reusability, and security services. The response should discuss the hardware platforms to support the architecture, programming languages used, and COTS products used in the implementation of the architecture. The response should be limited to a maximum of fifty written pages. The response should be delivered to this office within forty-five (45) days of initial publication of this synopsis. This office may invite follow-up papers, presentations, or demonstrations on particularly interesting architectures. Proprietary data should be clearly identified as such. This synopsis is for information and planning purposes only and does not constitute an IFB or RFP. Funds are not currently available for this effort. A reference library is not available at ESC. A briefing on JSIMS is available on the Stricom Industry & Academia Bulletin Board System (SIA BBS) at (407) 381-8666. An industry briefing is not contemplated. Submit papers to Mr. Guy Giroux, ESC/AVM, 20 Schilling Circle, Hanscom AFB, MA 01731-2816. Also, send a copy of your paper to the JSIMS Program Office: Mark Falkey, Capt., USN, JSIMS/JPO, 3045 Technology Parkway Orlando, FL 32826. (0054)

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