THE DEVELOPMENT OF OPERATIONAL REQUIREMENTS DRIVEN FEDERATIONS

This paper proposes a systems engineering process utiliz-ing the conceptual artifacts of the Model Driven Architec-ture (MDA) describing platform independent views of models to capture operational requirements, to derive es-sential tasks, and to combine these tasks into scenarios and vignettes with attributed metrics. This model-independent mission description is then used to identify supporting si-mulation services that implement the identified military means and capabilities to perform the tasks in the given context. Once the services are identified, the necessary si-mulation middleware to federate the services is identified and the interfaces are configured using the technical arti-facts of the MDA describing platform specific views o