NATO Solicits Virtual Afghanistan Simulations to Test War Plans

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February 02, 2009



NATO commanders in Afghanistan want a virtual version of the country, to test out battle plans and forecast future unrest.

Last last week, NATO began its search for for the newest "simulation capability: (https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=3e8261ecae157b2f8079a780d5af02a8&tab=core&_cview=1)

" This one should "be able to model the Afghanistan engagement space in the Political, Military, Economic, Social, Infrastructure and Information (PMESII) domains," a call for white papers notes. With all that information in hand, war planners can then "assess and validate how specific future events or actions could impact on the current situation through the creation and simulation of a hypothetical/simulated environment."

Coders and researchers at Lockheed Martin, Carnegie Mellow University, SAIC, BAE Systems, and Purdue University have all lined up, to make similar sim societies:

http://blog.wired.com/defense/2007/11/lockheed-peers-.html
http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/darpa-from-ooda-to-deep-green-03497/
http://blog.wired.com/defense/2007/11/mathematical-mo.html

White papers for these new models, NATO says, "are due no later than 25 February 2009 at 16000 hours Eastern Standard Time."


read: http://blog.wired.com/defense/2009/02/nato-wants-sim.html