High Level Architecture (HLA) as a basis of Systems-Engineering Automation for Simulation Based Acquisition (SBA)

This paper addresses the use of the High Level Architecture (HLA), the Department of Defense’s official technical framework for simulation, as a basis for automated support to the systems engineering practice significant in the technical implementation of Simulation Based Acquisition (SBA) business practices. The paper particularly describes and educes the consequences of the logical 'dual' between the functional meta-encapsulation of simulation representation within the context of systems engineering operations on the one hand and the simple linear extension naturally provided by the HLA’s open systems architecture structure on the other.