Command And Control Simulation Interface Language (ccsil): Status Update

Abstract

: The Command and Control Simulation Interface Language (CCSIL) is a special language for communicating between and among command entities and small units of virtual platforms generated by computers for the Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS) environment. CCSIL is a component of ARPA's Command Forces (CFOR) program, a concept that incorporates explicit modeling of battlefield command and control (C 2 ) in virtual simulation. ronment. Under the CFOR architecture, a command entity may be represented in one of three ways: . a complex software application (the original goal of the Command Forces program), . a traditional computer generated forces application (e.g., an abstraction of the platoon leader is embedded in the ModSAF application) , . a human working at his/her real world command and control workstation. ARPA recently initiated a contractor effort to develop the first CFOR command entity within the CFOR architecture, using the infrastructure services software and CCSIL. This ..