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The Modeling and Simulation Coordination Office (M&S CO) is a Department of Defense (DoD) organization that helps with the development, coordination, technical guidance, and standardization of Modeling and Simulation activities. It also ensures that modeling and simulation technology is consistent with other related DoD initiatives and provides administrative and technical support to the DoD M&S …

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  The DoD Modeling & Simulation (M&S) Catalog is a web-based search capability that provides a “card catalog” level of detail about M&S tools, data and services available to its users.  It’s designed to guide a user quickly to a manageable set of alternatives to evaluate. The tool has the capability to perform analysis of …

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A Distributed Product Description (DPD) is a distributed collection of product-centric information that is interconnected via web technology into what appears (to the user) to be a single, combined, logically unified product representation. A DPD is a: [1] Distributed collection of digital product information A view of current product state to all program participants throughout …

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Modeling & Simulation (M&S) requirements specify the set of capabilities that a simulation needs in order to adequately serve all of its intended uses. Users rely on information from the three domains (Problem, User and Simulation) to develop a concise and consistent set of requirements for the simulation at hand. Users use this set of …

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  The use of Modeling and Simulation (M&S) in Test and Evaluation (T&E) provides test data to support system concept exploration. It provides valuable information that can increase confidence levels, decrease field test time and costs, and provide data for pre-test prediction and post-test validation. M&S in T&E can be divided into three (3) categories: …

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A simulation of a system is the operation of a model of the system; “Simulation Model”. The steps involved in developing a simulation model, designing a simulation experiment, and performing simulation analysis are: [1] Step 1. Identify the Problem: Enumerate problems with an existing system. Produce requirements for a proposed system. Step 2. Formulate the …

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  This DoD Modeling & Simulation (M&S) Body of Knowledge (BOK) was published in June 2008. The BOK provides standardized language and associated knowledge base for users, developers, managers and executive-level personnel to effectively apply M&S to DoD requirements. The awareness and application usage levels contained in this BOK are displayed by the services (Army, …

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