Keywords: INTEROPERABILITY;LVC

Additional Keywords not in the list above: Range

Learning Objective 1: The student will identify the four major aspects of TENA and be able to explain their role in promoting interoperability.

Learning Objective 2: The student will learn at least three major differences between TENA and simulation architectures such as DIS and HLA

Learning Objective 3: The student will identify the major purpose and use of Big Data Analysis for distributed testing and training.

Abstract:

The Test and Training Enabling Architecture (TENA) provides an advanced set of interoperability software, interfaces, and connectivity for use in joint distributed testing and training.  This tutorial will discuss how TENA works and why it is important to the test and training communities, with some comparison to other interoperability architectures.  TENA provides testers and trainers software such as the TENA Middleware—a high-performance, real-time, low-latency communication infrastructure that is used by training range instrumentation software and tools during execution of a range training event.  The standard TENA Object Models provide data definitions for common range entities and thus enables semantic interoperability among training range applications. The TENA tools, utilities, adapters, gateways, and data management capabilities assist in creating and managing an integration of range resources.   This tutorial will describe the elements of TENA in general and then take a deeper dive into how to use TENA with specific emphasis on the new and improved standard object models designed to bridge the gap between live systems and virtual and constructive simulations.