Modeling, Simulation, Visualization and Analysis

BAE Systems' modeling and simulation capability integrates complex, domain-specific technologies into an environment providing detailed, packet-level RF communications modeling over terrain in realistic operational scenarios.

Simulation experiments in the C4ISR MSVA environment are based on event-sequenced, scenario-based operational architecture. BAE Systems' basic environment includes mission/scenario control, communications and visualization federates, and is extensible to include simulations of other C4ISR systems. During the simulation, operational behavior of the entities, including status, heading and velocity, are controlled by the mission/scenario federate. These data are published to the communications federate, which uses it to model the communications among entities, taking into account routing algorithms, traffic size information, link budget and topographical data. The visualization federate displays the entities, their interactions and live statistical updates of the simulation performance metrics in the operational environment.

BAE Systems is a pioneer in bridging the gap between simulation and systems. Its hardware-in-the loop technology provides seamless connectivity between network simulation and actual network devices through an Internet protocol interface that leverages the native network hardware on the simulation workstation(s) to connect to a live network that eliminates the need for specialized adapters for hardware integration and testing. This technology has been adopted by a premier provider of network simulation tools, and a version is now marketed as a commercial "systems in the loop" interface module.