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nvironment ” has the task of bringing the integration knowledge required to build a federation to hatever organization is charged with that federating task. The knowledge concerning an individual ederate is often found to a level of great expertise within a localized organization. In order to effectively ave all federates required by an organization forming a federation, that organization must have access to he knowledge required to work with these federates. The knowledge could be shared via training and ducation programs, however the number of systems that exist will make this sort of universal training rogram unrealistic. A better goal is to have that necessary information available to all eligible rganizations that need access to it. This is a perfect problem for knowledge delivery via the modern nternet, and such knowledge delivery will not only bring together information gathered in the past, such s from prior NMSG technical activities, but also from present organizations that are experts on the ndividual systems and methods, and for the future such knowledge delivery will help to guide not only the uilding of Federations but also other related MSG Pathfinder activities, or even NATO activities in eneral (such as study results from other panels, such as IST or SAS). o satisfy the goals of Pathfinder Integration Environment (facilitate the integration of purpose-built ederations from different National Federates) the knowledge needed for that need to be captured an