Project Focus: A Study of Virtual Proving Ground Software Architecture Requirements

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Abstract:

The virtual proving ground VPG is a concept being developed within the U.S. Army Test and Evaluation Command to harness the power of state-of-the-art sophisticated modeling and simulation technologies to augment and enhance test and evaluation in support of product acquisition. VPG is a cohesive and comprehensive capability for testing concepts, virtual prototypes, hardware prototypes, subsystems, and full systems. A broad, far-reaching, and diverse set of capabilities is envisioned within the VPG. Critical to the successful implementation of the VPG is an architecture able to support or enable those capabilities. A major function of the VPG architecture will be to integrate dissimilar heterogeneous engineering level models and simulations of prototype and production hardware and the synthetic environments in which they operate. In 1996, the U.S. Army Aberdeen Test Center and the U.S. Army Research Laboratory jointly conducted Project Focus to help determine the architectural requirements that support the VPG concept. This report contains a description of Project Focus and the architectural requirements that resulted from it.

Author(s):
Sauerborn, Geoffrey C. ; Smith, Kenneth G. ; Scramlin, Alan W. ; Shankle, Robert R. ; Gauss, Robert W.
Author Organization(s):
ARMY RESEARCH LAB ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND MD
Descriptive Note:
Final rept.
Supplementary Note:
DOI: 10.21236/ADA330855
Pagination:
0141

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DOCUMENT & CONTEXTUAL SUMMARY

Distribution:
Approved For Public Release

RECORD

Collection: TR
Identifying Numbers
Report Number(s):
ARL-TR-1429
Monitor Series:
ARL*
 Subject Terms
Joint Capability Areas:
JCA_5_Command and Control; JCA_6_Net Centric; JCA_5.5_Direct; JCA_5.5.1_Communicate Intent and Guidance; JCA_4.7.2_Installation Services; JCA_4.7_Base and Installations Support; JCA_6.4.1_Secure Information Exchange; JCA_4.6_Engineering; JCA_6.1.3_Switching and Routing; JCA_4.6.1_General Engineering; JCA_6.1_Information Transport; JCA_5.3_Planning; JCA_5.2_Understand; JCA_6.4_Information Assurance; JCA_5.2.3_Share Knowledge and Situational Awareness; JCA_1.2_Force Preparation; JCA_1_Force Support; JCA_1.2.6_Concepts; JCA_5.3.2_Apply Situational Understanding; JCA_6.2.3_Core Enterprise Services; JCA_6.2.1_Information Sharing
Modernization Areas:
Quantum Science and Computing
Communities of Interest:
Ground and Sea Platforms
Descriptor(s):
*COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION, *SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, TEST AND EVALUATION, DATA BASES, SCENARIOS, ARMY RESEARCH, DATA MANAGEMENT, COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN, COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE, PROTOTYPES, SYSTEMS ANALYSIS, DESIGN CRITERIA, VIRTUAL REALITY, CLIENT SERVER SYSTEMS
Field(s)/Group(s):
Computer Systems
Keyword(s):
FOCUS PROJECT, VPG(VIRTUAL PROVING GROUND), PE62261A
Report Date:
1997 Sep 01
Creation Date:
1997 Nov 05