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A Human Behaviour Model (HBM) can be applied for a variety of military purposes: training, policy development (e.g., “which doctrine is most effective?”), organizational design (e.g., “which task allocation in a team has the most acceptable workloads?”) or system and interface design (e.g., “evaluating new military systems for usability and human performance”). HBMs are difficult to create and often are built from scratch every time. Once created they often are inflexible and difficult to adapt to new missions or expand with new components and thus hard to reuse. This document is the final report of MSG-127, a task group which brought together NATO scientists with expertise in human behaviour modelling and simulation, and human factors. The group has leveraged previous NATO explorations related to HBM and Modelling and Simulation as a Service (MSaaS), along with the scientific literature across relevant areas to establish a set of recommendations for improving the fidelity, flexibility, and interoperability of HBMs. MSG-127 concludes that a Reference Architecture (RA) for HBM would be valuable to address the need for more modularity and improved opportunities for reuse and cost-effective deployment. A common framework solution benefits all stakeholders and should be developed using (open) extensible standards.