Cyberspace is a rapidly evolving and contested domain. As a result, government, industry, academia, and international organizations are continuously developing and deploying capabilities to meet the rigorous training and readiness requirements of its users. Ideally these organizations would have conceptual models, validated data, interoperability standards, and other authoritative references to design, build, and employ new capabilities. With this information, organizations could build federated systems-of-systems in an efficient and scalable manner. Without this information, organizations are forced to develop custom solutions that may be incompatible with other solutions and require re-work in the future. This paper will examine the requirements and current state of cyber M&S interoperability with a focus on cyber terrain, real-time cyber effects data exchange, cyber-aware cross domain solutions, kinetic and non-kinetic entity correlation, and battle damage assessment. Recommendations will be provided in the form of a candidate roadmap to achieve cyber M&S interoperability. The roadmap will be based on the authors’ extensive experience developing kinetic and non-kinetic standards, tools, and systems in support of multi-domain operations training.

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Ms. Sara Meyer