Maturing Supporting Software for C2-Simulation Interoperation

The Battle Management Language (BML) has been developed as an unambiguous representation of orders, reports and requests between military command and control (C2) systems and simulations. This paper describes development of two critical elements for BML experimentation. The first is a Web service that is used as a repository for the orders, reports, and requests, packaged as XML documents and stored in a relational database in a standard format. The second is a graphic user interface that supports inspection and modification of BML documents using forms that are created from the BML schemas at runtime, combined with a geospatial interface. This paper describes the role of these elements in C2-simulation interoperation and describes their architecture and features, as motivated by application in NATO Coalition BML experimentation. The software described is available as open source.