Common Image Generator Interface CIGI Support Group Meeting

Common Image Generator Interface (CIGI) Support Group Meeting November 28 2017 ***STARTING 9 AM EST, 2 PM UK, 3 PM CET***

Agenda – PSG business 1) 2) 3) 4) Call to order, minutes from last meeting Introduction to SISO and CIGI PSG Status of PCRs Set up and administration of CIGI V 5 study group (SG) including call for volunteer members 5) AOB 2

CALL TO ORDER 3

INTRODUCTION TO SISO AND CIGI 4

ABOUT SISO • The Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization (SISO) is an international organization dedicated to the promotion of modeling and simulation interoperability and reuse for the benefit of a broad range of M&S communities. • Our Mission. . . • • • 5 - is to develop, manage, maintain, and promulgate user-driven Modeling and Simulation (M&S) standards that improve the technical quality and cost efficiency of M&S implementations across the world-wide M&S community. Our Vision. . . - SISO is the organization dedicated to the promotion of modeling and simulation interoperability and reuse for the benefit of diverse M&S communities, including developers, procurers, and users world-wide. Membership is personal and most work is done by volunteers SISO standards feed into NATO Modelling & Simulation Group and other bodies

SISO Operating Principles • • • 6 Responsiveness and Responsibility - SISO shall be responsive to the communities it serves. SISO shall be responsible for providing products and services that promote interoperability and reuse with the least possible impact on existing applications. Quality - SISO activities and resulting products shall reflect technical excellence and the highest quality work. Discipline - SISO shall exercise due process in all activities. Policies and procedures shall be publicly available and shall serve as the basis for governing the organization and its activities. SISO standards development processes shall have a balance of interests and shall not be dominated by any single interest category Fairness - SISO activities shall provide the right of appeal at all levels. Openness - SISO activities shall be carried out in an open forum where any person has access to the process. Consensus - SISO decisions shall be based on simple majority agreement unless explicitly stated otherwise. Votes and ballots can be conducted in person, by teleconference, or by electronic balloting, as appropriate.

CIGI standard status • • CIGI 4. 0 approved 22 Aug 2014 Freely available on the SISO website www. sisostds. org • “All IG systems procured by the UK Mo. D now must be CIGI v 4 compliant” - UK Mo. D official NATO MSG-118 project looking to transfer CIGI compliancy tools and frameworks to the PSG Now on the US DOD Assist list (DMSCO) of approved simulation standards Also on NATO standards list • • • 7

Six Step Process for standards W 8 re A e re e H

CIGI PSG Terms Of Ref. Summary • • 9 Operate in accordance with all applicable SISO administrative products include election of officers (chair, vice chair, secretary), use of discussion boards, digital libraries, periodic review, publicize and liaise with other organizations etc. Track and maintain a listing of organizations that use approved CIGI products. Create success stories describing the use of CIGI products by those organizations and publicize on the SISO webpage. Maintain a Help Desk, establish and maintain a Problem/Change Request (PCR) process Recommend formation of a PDG when a new PDG is needed. Develop PNs, Terms of Reference, etc. , and process through the Standards Activity Committee (SAC). Provide the SAC an annual report describing progress over the previous year and goals for the following year. Provide support to the generation of registered extension packet IDs as defined in section 6. 3 of the CIGI standard. Review registered extension packets to determine areas of common functionality where PCR’s could be generated for investigation and possible introduction into later revisions of the standard.

CIGI PSG Organization • Chair – Simon Skinner, XPI Simulation • Vice-Chair – Bill Phelps, Boeing • Secretary – Mark Peterson, L 3 • Technical Area Director – Grant Bailey – UK • Mo. D Member - 10 Be registered on the PSG reflector PSG may establish additional membership requirements with approval from the SAC All PSG members shall maintain SISO membership.

Current affiliation information 11 Grant Bailey UK Ministry of Defence grant. bailey 127@mod. gov. uk Bobby Chawla Real-Time Engineering & Simulation Bobby. Chawla@rteng. pro Jordan Dauble Sim. Blocks LLC Jordan. Dauble@simblocks. io Roland Humphries XPI Simulation, Thales roland. humphries@xpisimulation. com Patrice LE LEYDOUR THALES patrice. leleydour@thalesgroup. com Lance Marrou SE Core CVEM / Leidos lance. r. marrou@leidos. com William Mayes Rockwell Collins William. Mayes@Rockwell. Collins. com Ronald Moore SE Core/Leidos ronald. g. moore@leidos. com willard Laurent David phelps Prignac Ronnfeldt The Boeing Company MBDA Australian Defence Simulation and Training Centre willard. b. phelps@boeing. com laurent. prignac@mbda-systems. com david. ronnfeldt 2@defence. gov. au Curtis Simon Chas Schroeder Skinner Whitley Draper (Laboratory) Thales UK TJ Inc. c. schroeder@computer. org simon. skinner@uk. thalesgroup. com cwhitley@mescorp. com

Common Image Generator Interface CIGI PSG Officers & Technical Activity Director: Officer Role Task Description Summary (from SISO-TOR- 013 -2014): • • Track and maintain a listing of organizations that use approved CIGI products Create success stories describing the use of CIGI products by those organizations and publicize on the SISO webpage. Maintain a Help Desk using the group’s electronic discussion forum to answer questions and discuss potential revisions and new requirements. Establish and maintain a Problem/Change Request(PCR)process to collect problems and change requests from users of CIGI products Conduct analysis and refinement of submitted PCRs Provide support to the generation of registered extension packet IDs as defined in section 6. 3 of the CIGI standard Review registered extension packets to determine areas of common functionality where PCR’s could be generated for investigation and possible introduction into later revisions of the standard. PSG Product Description Summary: • SISO-STD-013 -2014 – CIGI Version 4 Organization Chair Simon Skinner Thales, UK Vice-Chair Willard Phelps Boeing, St. Louis Secretary Mark Peterson L 3 Grant Bailey UK MOD TAD lhttps: //en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Common_Image_Generator_Interface Name Number of PSG Members: 14 Significant Results/Achievements: • • • PSG F 2 F meetings held at SIW’ 16, ITEC’ 17, Sept 17 CIGI page on Wikipedia updated to reflect SISO standard Adoption of CIGI v 4 mandated within several government communities CIGI success stories generated (XPI paper accepted for SIW), Simblocks. io Several PCRs processed Summary of Progress: • • Continuing engagement with IG community to promulgate CIGI 4 Working group for CIGI 5 not yet achieved – aim to establish at ITSEC - Dec 17 – issues with getting significant volunteer effort and IG vendor buy-in

ACTIONS ARISING FROM PREVIOUS MEETINGS 13

Actions outstanding • • • 14 Action Item: Group to cooperatively identify companies and people and generate briefing information including CIGI usage case studies to support discussions at the 2017 SIW. Use discussion boards to post companies and individuals to invite to get involved in CIGI – ongoing Action Item: Simon will post on the discussion board information about the deadlines for NATO conference paper submissions. Action Item: Simon will ask for a volunteer to reconstitute the PCR status file on the discussion board Action Item: Simon will contact Bruce Riner to find a room for ITSEC meeting Action Item: Grant to provide information about SIW replanning Action Item: Simon to complete the annual report and share with the group before submission

Status of PCRs • Latest status file in digital library (12/8) is • • 15 corrupted – needs updating – volunteer? PCR 19 to 31 are in the library PCR 32 has been approved

Date of next meeting • Winter SIW January 21 to 26 th • Papers from September carried forward • CIGI PSG meeting Weds 24 th @ 8 am 16

CIGI 5 STUDY GROUP 17

CIGI v 5 background • CIGI 4. 0 uptake is gathering pace • Next generation CIGI v 5 inputs from: - Simon Skinner – ITEC 16 paper at SISO conference Synthetic Environment Generator Interface ‘SEGI 1. 0’ Bohemia Interactive Simulation ‘Gears’ Roland Humphries – 2016 -SIW-025 Idea to take a look at ‘Open. IG’ All of these are in the digital library - Form a study group to look at CIGI v 5 Form a PDG to generate CIGI v 5 – 2019 release • Consensus from workshop in September 18

Reasons for major change • Arguably CIGI 4. 0 uses old paradigm – a • packet based interface Reflects IG state of the art from 10 years ago - Limited / no features for human characters No handling of dynamic terrain features Does not reflect features of ‘COTS games technologies’ API approach may better - Better support for land requirements • CIGI is ‘air focussed’ 19

New paradigms for M&S • • 20 More demand for applications for M&S beyond military training Better technology enabling: - Higher performance more detailed graphics ‘Whole earth’ image generators Streaming image generators Modelling and simulation as a Service - Modular composable components e. g. route planning Visualization as a Service (Vaa. S) Environmental server Dynamic Synthetic Environments MSG-156 - Effect of weather on terrain and environment Terrain deformation

Questions for CIGI v 5 study group • Terms of reference? - Membership / Leadership Rules of engagement Scope of study - how limited is scope? • • • What options could be proposed Break compatability Lessons learned from V 4 Links to other groups • • E. g. NATO MSG 156 OGC ? - Government / Academic interest and involvement - One year with monthly telecons? • Timescale for operation 21

SG TOR’s discuss… 22

SG volunteer Sign-up • Now – on signup • • • 23 sheet On the discussion board Contact Grant Bailey or me 1 st meeting at Winter SIW

AOB? 24

Q & A / Contact details • Contact points - 25 Simon Skinner Chair simon. skinner@uk. thalesgroup. com Grant Bailey TAD grant. bailey 127@mod. gov. uk