Operational Test Command (OTC) Analytic Simulation and Instrumentation Suite (OASIS) Brings Live Players to the Modeling Architecture for Technology, Research, and EXperimentation (MATREX) and Other Benefits of MATREX-OASIS Teaming

摘要

In February 2007, the Program Manager for Modeling Architecture for Technology and Research EXperimentation, (MATREX) a Research, Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM) effort contacted the US Army Operational Test Command (USAOTC) to determine and explore potential partnering and teaming opportunities. Specifically, whether or not there was a way to incorporate a richer live integration into the MATREX federation. Finally, guided by the requirements of their customers, USAOTC decided in 2005 to pursue linking these systems together through the MATREX Federation Object Model (FOM) and run-time infrastructure (RTI) to create a true system of systems (SoS) test capability under a program called OASIS Integration. Both organizations were also linked through the Cross Command Collaboration Effort (3CE), which seeks to leverage and enable cross-command connectivity, collaborative requirements determination, common hardware, software solutions, and collaboration tools that are derived from common analytic requirements for test, evaluation, and analysis. The MATREX and USAOTC Modeling and Simulation (M&S) technologists met to discuss each programs' capabilities, requirements, and plans. Several areas were identified as holding potential benefit to both organizations. This paper identifies these and other benefits of this cooperative effort. While OTC and RDECOM obviously benefit by this partnering and teaming, other commands and programs will realize benefits to their efforts as well.