Integrating global simulation training systems can be a formidable challenge. Legacy simulators often use different standards for data, voice, and video. While modern architectures require the use of cloud-based distributed assets. To top it off, security requirements now force integrators to become experts in information assurance.

Winning solutions will be ones who create synthetic training environments that can quickly be assembled and reconfigured from ready-made components. How can simulation systems integrators keep pace by limiting integration time to meet these requirements? Attend this tutorial to learn how the Object Management Group’s Data Distribution Service (DDS) can ease integration, while also delivering National Security Agency tested security for distributed training systems over any transport.

DDS is an open standard that provides interoperability through a connectivity framework that meets the stringent real-time requirements of global defense industries. DDS is currently used in over one thousand deployed defense systems, it seamlessly stitches together legacy defense simulations, while adding humans and hardware in the loop, to create new secure LVC environments that can share real, augmented, and virtual realities. These environments run over DDS, either in a single lab or across multiple sites and transports, unifying disparate data models, all while enabling physics-speed response times.

This tutorial introduces the DDS and DDS Security standards. You will learn how to use the DDS Security standard to securely interoperate with real-world systems that already communicate over DDS, to distributed LVC Simulations. The tutorial will further describe how to integrate DDS with existing simulation standards, simulation object modes, and data models of any kind, allowing for a large suite of ‘qualities of service’ to help fine-tune performance and scalability, while also providing robust security for individual entities and topics of simulation data.

Next the tutorial will introduce you to the Real-Time WAN Transport that extends DDS capabilities to enable secure, scalable, and high-performance communication over WANs, TDL, RF and public 5G networks. The Real-Time WAN Transport uses UDP as the underlying IP transport-layer protocol to better anticipate and adapt to the challenges of diverse network conditions, device mobility, and the dynamic nature of WAN system architectures. Finally, the tutorial will highlight recent LVC Simulation user experiences with DDS and offer an overview of deployed systems using DDS in systems integration labs, and with LVC training simulators today.

This tutorial is intended for all audiences, though some familiarity with the basic principles of distributed computing is recommended.