The Live Virtual Constructive Architecture Roadmap (LVCAR) report recommended actions to promote the sharing of tools, data, and information across the Enterprise; and to foster common formats and policy goals to promote interoperability and the use of common M&S capabilities. This paper presents the results of these efforts.

The systems engineering framework effort evaluated how the Distributed Simulation Engineering and Execution Process (DSEEP), IEEE 1730, could be extended to multi-architecture environments, focusing on identifying and addressing issues that only arise as a result of integrating multiple architectures. We detail extensions to the DSEEP that address these issues.

The federation agreements effort analyzed existing federation agreement documents and literature about such agreements, identifying all agreements the LVC community has deemed valuable. We decomposed these agreements into individual elements in an XML schema. We present the process, resulting schema, and guidance for using the template.

The reusable tools and common data storage formats effort extensively researched existing tools and formats. We evaluated potential and existing tool business models, identified the benefits and barriers of each model for the DoD, and determined the current business model for each category. Based on this analysis, we recommended actions to improve reuse of tools by category. We prioritized the needs for common data storage formats with the LVC community, and recommended actions to move toward common formats for the highest priority categories.

The asset reuse effort developed use cases for reuse mechanisms and criteria for evaluating the ability of existing mechanisms to support the use cases. Based on this analysis, we developed an implementation plan to improve mechanisms for the reuse of M&S assets.

Our results provide the LVC community with improved multi-architecture interoperability mechanisms and concrete plans for additional improvements in the future.

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Ryan Brunton