An Agile Roadmap for Live, Virtual and Constructive-Integrating Training Architecture (LVC-ITA): A Case Study Using a Component Based Integrated Simulation Engine (AddSIM)

There is a lack of interoperability, limited reuse and loose integration between the Live, Virtual and/or Constructive assets across multiple Standard Simulation Architectures (SSAs). There has been much research to solve these problems but their solutions resulted in complex and inflexible integration, long time of user-usage and high cost for LVC simulation. The purpose of this research is to provide an agile roadmap for the Live Virtual Constructive-Integrating Training Architecture (LVC-ITA) that will address the above problems and introduce interoperable LVC simulation. In addition, this research illustrated a case study using an Adaptive distributed parallel Simulation environment for Interoperable and reusable Model (AddSIM) that is a component based integrated simulation engine. The agile roadmap of the LVC-ITA that reflected the lessons learned from the case study will contribute to guide Modeling and Simulation (M&S) developing communities to an efficient path to increase interoperability, composability and integration of LVC assets.