Advancing a Joint Federation Object Model

Over the past ten years, the U.S. military has developed an array of Joint and multi-Service federations to meet specific purposes under slightly different conditions. Each development team independently established a Federation Object Model (FOM) aligned to the specific focus of their federation. The issue under study will identify options and explore the feasibility of reconciling these separate federation object models. Moreover, this paper recommends Modeling and Simulation (M&S) community participation in continuing efforts to develop common approaches, best practices, reusable components, and standards to promote FOM extensibility and reuse.