Technical Opportunities Workshop Whitepaper, 14 June 2002Purpose: As the Department of Defense (DoD) is engaged in both warfighting and institutional
transformation for the new millennium, DoD Modeling & Simulation (M&S) also needs to identify
and adopt transformational technologies which provide direct tactical relevance to warfighters.
Because the only software systems that composably scale to worldwide scope utilize the World
Wide Web, it is evident that an extensible Web-based framework shows great promise to scale up
the capabilities of M&S systems to meet the needs of training, analysis, acquisition, and the
operational warfighter. By embracing commercial web technologies as a shared-communications
platform and a ubiquitous-delivery framework, DoD M&S can fully leverage mainstream practices
for enterprise-wide software development
