OUTREACH -- FMS

Currently, our main DoD user group that provides the application focus
and testbed for the WebHLA framework is the Night Vision Lab at
Ft. Belvoir which develops CMS as part of their R&D in the area of
countermine engineering. Our support for CMS includes:

o Building Parallel CMS module by porting sequential CMS to Origin2000
  (and later on also to a commodity cluster)

o Integrating Parallel CMS module with other WebHLA federates
  described above (JDIS, PDUDB, SimVis)

o Planning future joint work with Ft. Belvoir. This includes
  development of joint proposals such as currently pending CHSSI
  proposal on WebHLA for Metacomputing CMS, submitted Jan 99 in response
  to the recent HPCMO FY99 RFP.

We are also interacting closely with and provide PET support for the
current FMS CHSSI projects, including:

o FMS-3 where we are builing Web based interactive training for the
  SPEEDES simulation kernel;

o FMS-4 where we are acting as external technical reviewer and we
  recently developed a joint CHSSI proposal with SPAWAR for a follow-on
  project on using SPEEDES, Parallel IMPORT and WebHLA to build
  Intelligent Agent support for FMS.

o FMS-5 where we expect to directly participate and we were asked to
  provide our Object Web RTI as a test implementation of the RTI 1.3
  standard, to be certified by DMSO and used by FMS-5 as a fully
  compliant reference prototype.