Fiscal Year	2012
Division	Research & Sponsored Programs
Department	Modeling, Virtual Environments & Simuation Institute
Investigator(s)	Brutzman, Donald P.
Sponsor	Naval Air Warfare Center-Weapons Division (Navy)
Summary	Interoperability among diverse software systems is difficult to achieve. Integration challenges become even more difficult when confronted with proprietary software, ad hoc interfaces, and long-term project life-cycle requirements. The IEEE Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS) Protocol is a proven unencumbered standard that provides excellent support for heterogonous physics-based virtual environments and synthetic military battle spaces. The NPS MOVES Institute has created, published and maintained the only major open-source DIS software library supporting both protocol handling and enumeration values in multiple programming languages. Further additions to this royalty-free library have the potential to save government agencies many thousands of dollars per year, avoiding expensive software licenses for commercial DIS tools or (even worse) program "lock in" if other proprietary networking technologies are used. For this project, NPS MOVES will provide software development and support for sponsor testing objectives, applying the Open-DIS open-source software libraries in concert with a hybrid client-server application architecture for missile testing and evaluation.
Keywords	Distributed Interactive Simulation (Dis) Protocol Open-Dis
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