Corps Support Weapon System C3I Simulator

The Corps Support Weapon System (CWSW) C3I Simulator is a man-in-the-loop functional simulation of the Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence (C3I) aspects for a proposed Army surface-to-surface missile system. It is an engineering design tool used to develop and evaluate alternative C3I options, to aid in hardware selection and software architecture design, and to demonstrate the ability of a candidate system design to meet unique mission requirements. The time critical and operator intensive C3I nodes are “played” in the simulator. That is to say, the operators must interact with the software to access the particular set of received messages, react with proper decisions, and generate and send the resulting outgoing messages. The other components of the CSWS (i.e., the launcher and missiles) and the “outside world” are simulated dynamically by event driven models. The initial version of the Simulator was postulated to reflect current U.S. Army organizational doctrine and the results of previous studies by other contractors. It revealed an unnecessary, time consuming message path, identified three major message flow loops to be processed automatically (i.e., without manual interaction), and validated the desirability of combining the command and control functions performed at two adjacent C3I nodes. The simulator is currently operational at Martin Marietta Aerospace in Orlando, Florida, and at TRW Defense Systems Group in Redondo Beach, California.