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Activity title: Allied Interoperability and Standardization Initiatives for Digital Twins
Activity Reference: MSG-205
Panel: MSG
Security Classification: PUBLIC RELEASE
Status: Active
Activity type: RTG
Start date: 2022-10-10T00:00:00Z
Actual End date: 2025-10-10T00:00:00Z
Keywords: Acquisition, Architecture, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Cloud Computing, Cybersecurity, Data Lake, Digital Twin, Experimentation, Interoperability, MBSE, Modelling, Simulation, Standards, Systems Engineering, VVA
Background: A Digital Twin (DT) has been defined as ‘A virtual representation of a connected physical asset' (Ref American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)).
Noting that several alternative definitions have been proposed in recent years by different organizations the task group will have a goal to find a common agreed definition.
DTs are used in data rich simulations connected to real world systems that are becoming increasingly recognized as an approach to the issue of complex system of systems design, development, production, operation, sustainment and training in military, government and commercial domains, with uses in many areas such as manufacturing, health, automotive, aerospace, smart cities and transportation.
DTs, while requiring extra additional effort, offer the prospect of greater reliability, reduced timescales and a reduction in the cost of implementing systems. They can be used to reduce the cost of test and evaluation, increase the amount of experimentation, and enhance decision support and mission planning and rehearsal as well as increasing the probability of mission success and improving the models developed during acquisition.
There is a growing demand to be able to federate DTs, nominate preferred standards, experiment on collaborative scenarios, learn from best practices and apply appropriate security. Moreover, a NATO DT perspective would be of value to inform and align national policies to support DTs in the supply chain and over the life cycle.
Much of the previous activity by NMSG research and other task groups have predominantly concentrated on the use and interoperability of simulation technologies for individual, group and collective training in the live, constructive and virtual domains. This TAP focusses more on the use of simulation in the form of DTs for CD&E and operational use.
Objectives: • Explore overlaps with M&S approaches and whether we can re-use or adapt M&S interoperability architectures (e.g. Higher Level Architecture (HLA), Modelling and Simulation as a Service (MSaaS)),standards (e.g. C2Sim ontology) or verification, validation and accreditation (VV&A) for DT needs. Identify opportunities to integrate DTs with other M&S standards;
• Survey of existing National Assets (in terms of models, infrastructures, high performance computing capabilities and data management) needed to implement a DT NATO wide capability;
• Describe and verify using quantifiable metrics the potential uses of DTs to improve efficiency and effectiveness of NATO collective operations;
• Describe issues and problems in current DT technologies which could impede the use and interoperability in the Allied military context;
• Identify interested organizations, links and adjacent capabilities which may provide synergies in implementing the widespread use of DTs within NATO;
• Identifying and examining existing standardization efforts in DTs initiated by any commercial and military standardization bodies to ensure coherence;
• Identify the enabling technologies for NATO DTs: High performance computing, Cloud federated services, Distributed computing big data systems, AI;
• Describe recommendations regarding the standards and communication protocols suggested for the DTs to effectively communicate among them;
• Analyse the different options regarding lower levels of the Architecture to support DT (Internet of Things (IoTIoT), virtualization, data lake running in Cloud-as-a-service or NATO’s property);
• Identifying recommendations for secure exchange of information between DTs.
Topics: • DT use cases and taxonomies;
• Levels of Interoperability;
• Ontologies and classification of model types and capabilities;
• Alternative security paradigms and techniques used within distributed computation systems;
• Technological and other barriers to implementation of interoperable DTs;
• Recommendations for DT architecture frameworks.
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Created at 23/05/2022 17:00 by System Account
Last modified at 17/05/2024 01:00 by System Account
 
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