A NATO OPORD Capability for BML

NATO MSG-085 was chartered to "Investigate approaches for the deployment of Coalition BML capabilities complementing existing operational C2 system exchange mechanisms." A recognized capability needed to achieve this is a functional NATO Operations Order (OPORD) for the Battle Management Language (BML). GMU has developed a schema for a NATO OPORD, based on our earlier work with an Army OPORD for Integrated BML (IBML) and, before that, the geoBML OPORD that also was a predecessor of the Common Ground Joint Capability Technology Demonstration. It will be made available to MSG-085 as a basis for further development. This paper describes the resulting NATO OPORD schema, the associated script for the Scripted BML Web Server, and the example order developed for testing.