APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE Technical and Operational Issues in Combining MSDL and C-BML Standards for C2-Simulation Interoperation in MSG-085

Smart Defense aims at building greater security with more collaboration and more coherence in financially challenging times by preserving and maintaining existing essential capabilities while developing, delivering, and deploying new capabilities in key areas. The work of NATO MSG-085 Standardization for C2-Simulation Interoperation addresses this approach directly in that it shows how to interoperate national legacy C2 and simulation systems. This paper reports on work to converge two critical standards in the context of MSG-085: the Military Scenario Definition Language (MSDL) and the Coalition battle Management Language (C-BML). These two standards have been developed independently since 2005, with the understanding that, for full effectiveness, they must operate together. This paper reports on an effort to achieve a basic level of compatibility between MSDL and C-BML in support of MSG-085. The purposes and states of development of MSDL and C-BML are described, followed by a discussion of issues that must be resolved for the two to work together harmoniously. The MSG-085 project's purposes and general approach are set forth, followed by