Treffer: COMBATXXI, JDAFS, and LBC Integration Requirements for EASE

The purpose of this project is to assist the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Research and Development Center (ERDC) and the Army Research Laboratory (ARL) in the identification of low and high level requirements to integrate Combine Arms Analysis Tool for the 21st Century (COMBATXXI), Logistics Battle Command (LBC), and Joint Dynamic Allocation of Fires and Sensors (JDAFS) with a cloud-based simulation manager called the Executable Architecture for Systems Engineering (EASE). Using EASE will give an analyst the capability to use the appropriate modeling tool during a tradespace analysis. In order to integrate a combat model simulation tool with EASE, the EASE system engineers have to know the model's operating requirements and customizable parameters. Operating requirements are defined as the elements that are critical to the proper execution of a combat model. Customizable parameters are the options within a scenario file the user can modify for a specific purpose. In order to determine the EASE integration requirements for each model, the study team had to develop a use case scenario, operate each model with an example scenario, and develop appropriate batch scripts to execute the model automatically. The results of our analysis show that it is possible to integrate COMBATXXI, LBC, and JDAFS with EASE. Because COMBATXXI is a large and complex model, there will likely be some support requirements from TRAC-WSMR during the initial connection phase with EASE. The most likely users of COMBATXXI within EASE will be the current users of the model, therefore, we do not anticipate an unusual surge in technical support from TRAC-WSMR outside of what is already implemented in their current workload capacity. LBC and JDAFS are more self-contained models and will require less technical support during installation and execution within EASE.