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GMU C4I Center Seminar
Brazil - US Collaborative Command and Control Research Testbed
Dr. Michael R. Hieb
Friday, February 22, 2013 at 1:30 PM
Engineering building, Room 4705
ABSTRACT
In 2010, during the XII Symposium of Operational Applications in Defense Areas in Brazil, a
partnership was established between the Aeronautics Institute of Technology (ITA) and George
Mason University (GMU) to create an environment to support Command and Control (C2) research.
This environment is a Modeling and Simulation framework explicitly designed for investigating
innovative applications in the areas of C2 Planning, Security and Cyber Warfare. The
Collaborative C2 Research Testbed uses several COTS (Commercial Off-the-Shelf) tools along
with Open Standards to provide a rapid prototyping and modeling environment for C2 scenarios.
An overview of the Testbed will be presented focusing how the COTS Simulation tools are used
to investigate three Brazilian C2 scenarios. MÄK VR-Forces provides a powerful and
flexible simulation environment for scenario generation and execution. Scalable's Cyber EXata
provides a cyber-simulation that accurately emulates/simulates how complex communications will
behave. Detailed use cases include: 1) Optimization of helicopter rescue missions due to
flooding in the state of Santa Catarina in Brazil; 2) Simulation of a new Air Traffic Control
System technology in the Campos Basin (a petroleum rich area with offshore oil fields that
account for 80% of Brazil's oil production); and 3) Evaluation of the C2 infrastructure in Rio
for the World Cup (2014) and the Olympics (2016).
BIO
Dr. Hieb is a Research Associate Professor at George Mason University's Center for Excellence in
Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Intelligence (C4I Center) and a Technical Director
for the Army's Simulation to C4I Overarching IPT (SIMCI OIPT). From 1997 to present, Dr. Hieb's
area of research has been the integration of Simulation technology into Command and Control
Systems (for Military Organizations, Civil and Non Governmental Organizations). This has involved
both NATO and IEEE working groups and has spanned the fields of Computer Science, Networking,
Semantics, and Computational Linguistics. Dr. Hieb has over 110 publications and has presented
his research to NATO, Brazil and other countries. He received his PhD in Information Technology
from George Mason University in 1996.
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