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COMMERCE BUSINESS DAILY ISSUE OF FEBRUARY 27,1995 PSA#1291Electronic 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) Loren Data Corp. http://www.ld.com (SYN# 0007 19950224\A-0007.SOL)
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