Virtual Battlespace Scenario Encoding for Reuse, Phase I Report

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Blais, Curtis L.
Eady, Michael
David Parkes, David
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2013-09-30Metadata
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The United States Army and United States Marine Corps employ the Virtual
Battlespace 2 (VBS2) commercial game for small unit training. Each service has
significant investment in training scenarios constructed using VBS2 tools and conforming
to the vendor's particular data formats. To move toward improved interoperability, to
gain greater fiscal flexibility in addressing the statutory intent for open competition and
affordability, and to protect the investment made in models, terrain, and other elements of
training scenarios that are separate and distinct from the virtual and gaming environments
in which the simulation executes, open standards need to be applied in place of
proprietary commercial off-the-shelf architectures. In the current ( and foreseeable)
environment of constrained budgets, it is ever more critical that the services protect and
enhance their investments in simulation systems used for training and other purposes.
Expanding capabilities for open scenario interchange will improve scenario reuse while
creating greater opportunities for simulation data interchange and open competition for
future gaming capabilities. The Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a wide-spread approach to describing
data format and content to support efficient data processing and data interchange across
systems. This report describes initial application of XML technologies to the
representation of VBS2 scenario data, demonstrating feasibility for the capture and
exchange of VBS2 scenario data. The report provides a plan of action for a follow-on
phase of the effort to expand the representation and for use with other XML-based
standards, such as the Military Scenario Definition Language (MSDL), to create
opportunities for broader interchange of scenario data across a variety of combat
simulations.
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