Objective Simulation Framework (OSF)

Teledyne Brown Engineering is the Prime Contractor for the development and instantiation of the Objective Simulation Framework (OSF).  The OSF will provide MDA with an all-inclusive distributed test and evaluation (T&E) capability across all use cases.  The use cases that are supported by OSF are Performance Assessment (PA), Ground Test (GT), Element Integration (EI), Exercises (EX), Training (TR), Wargames (WG), and Concept Analysis (CA).  OSF is the backbone of the next-generation missile defense hardware-in-the-loop (HWIL) modeling and simulation architecture.  Specifically, the OSF is a single-inclusive, modular, scalable, reconfigurable, and composable framework for integrating multiple-instanced systems and system-level models and simulations (M&S), with each instance composed and executed independently or in an integrated and interoperable manner.  The OSF provides the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) and fielded locations with a highly flexible mechanism to modernize, deploy, and sustain MDA’s M&S, including framework representations and common truth services. The OSF has the following capabilities:

• Conducting integrated, distributed operator-in-the-loop events on mission or non-mission equipment across a full range of operational scenarios
• Providing simultaneous support to multiple and separately executed use case events (e.g., multiple Combatant Commander [COCOM] training exercise events)
• Conducting localized and multi-site use case events (e.g., Distributed Flight Test Crew Training, Multi-COCOM Training, Distributed Wargames, Distributed Element Integration)
• Providing a plug-and-play capability to quickly configure and employ different BMDS Element representations (e.g., models, simulations, HWIL, wrapped tactical codes)
• Providing functionality, including, but not limited to, simulation interface and common scenarios
• Capturing all data transmitted over the framework
• Performing initiation, synchronization, and cessation of events for all Element representations (Synchronization is to a common time for all participants.)
• Allowing live, virtual, and constructive representations of the Elements to share and act on common and consistent tracks
• Rapidly reconfiguring between live, virtual, and constructive representations of the Elements (in accordance with appropriate KPPs and KSAs)
• Operating in a distributed Integrated Air and Missile Defense (IAMD) environment and integrate system real-world capabilities and limitations.