Greetings All!
Please mark your calendars and plan to attend the
C4I Seminar Series on Friday February 22, from 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm
in the Engineering Building, room 4705. Dr. Michael Hieb presents
Brazil – US
Collaborative Command and Control Research Testbed. For further information contact Deb
Schenaker, 993-3682, email: [log in to unmask], or visit
our website c4i.gmu.edu.
ABSTRACT
In 2010, during the XII Symposium of Operational
Applications in Defense Areas in Brazil, a partnership was
established between the Aeronautics Institute of Technology
(ITA) and George Mason University (GMU) to create an
environment to support Command and Control (C2) research.
This environment is a Modeling and Simulation framework
explicitly designed for investigating innovative
applications in the areas of C2 Planning, Security and Cyber
Warfare. The Collaborative C2 Research Testbed uses several
COTS (Commercial Off-the-Shelf) tools along with Open
Standards to provide a rapid prototyping and modeling
environment for C2 scenarios. An overview of the Testbed
will be presented focusing how the COTS Simulation tools are
used to investigate three Brazilian C2 scenarios. MÄK
VR-Forces provides a powerful and flexible simulation
environment for scenario generation and execution.
Scalable’s Cyber EXata provides a cyber-simulation that
accurately emulates/simulates how complex communications
will behave. Detailed use cases include: 1) Optimization of
helicopter rescue missions due to flooding in the state of
Santa Catarina in Brazil; 2) Simulation of a new Air Traffic
Control System technology in the Campos Basin (a petroleum
rich area with offshore oil fields that account for 80% of
Brazil's oil production); and 3) Evaluation of the C2
infrastructure in Rio for the World Cup (2014) and the
Olympics (2016).
SPEAKER INFORMATION
DR. MICHAEL HIEB is a Research Associate Professor at
George Mason University's Center for Excellence in Command,
Control, Communications, Computers and Intelligence (C4I
Center) and a Technical Director for the Army's Simulation
to C4I Overarching IPT (SIMCI OIPT). From 1997 to present,
Dr. Hieb’s area of research has been the integration of
Simulation technology into Command and Control Systems (for
Military Organizations, Civil and Non Governmental
Organizations). This has involved both NATO and IEEE working
groups and has spanned the fields of Computer Science,
Networking, Semantics, and Computational Linguistics. Dr.
Hieb has over 110 publications and has presented his
research to NATO, Brazil and other countries. He received
his PhD in Information Technology from George Mason
University in 1996.
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