IEEE Computer Society Huntsville Chapter Meeting

Greg Tackett, AMRDEC

AMRDEC Distributed Experimentation

Tuesday, December 7, 2004

11:30 - 1:30

The Adtran East Tower. Ask the receptionist for directions to the cafeteria. The meeting will be in the Private Dining Room located directly past the cash registers. The cafeteria has several food stations and a wide variety of reasonably priced meal items are available. If you wish a meal you may take a tray in to the Dining Room.

Take Bradford Drive West past Research Park Boulevard. Continue through the stop light at Explorer Boulevard. The Adtran East Tower is straight ahead. Continue straight to the front courtyard, spaces marked for visitor parking are on the left. If no spaces are available, follow the road around to the right to the general parking area.

Please notify Glenn Cox at gcox@cs.uah.edu, or 824-6433 if you plan to attend.

Abstract: The Systems Simulation and Development Directorate (SSDD) of the US Army Aviation and Missile Research, Development, and Engineering Center (AMRDEC) has led several successful large-scale wide-area network distributed simulation events over the past several years, for the purpose of evaluating future weapon systems technologies and capabilities in operational contexts. This presentation is an overview of these SSDD efforts with emphasis on this year’s Joint Aviation, Missiles, and Unmanned Systems (JAMUS) experiment.

Biographical Sketch:Greg Tackett is the Senior Engineer for Distributed Simulation with AMRDEC. He has worked for the Department of Defense since 1982 in the field of Modeling and Simulation (M&S) and has developed a continuing education class at UAH on Interactive and Interoperable M&S. His activities include membership in the Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization (SISO), DMSO Architecture Management Group, and co-chair of the Alabama M&S Council Technology Committee. He is an associate editor of the Transactions of the Society of Modeling and Simulation International, and the Journal for Defense Modeling and Simulation. Greg has received the 2002 DMSO Award, the 2003 SMART Award, and a 2003 Civilian Service award, and has a patent pending for his work in distributed simulation.