PESCO PROJECTS

INTEGRATED EUROPEAN JOINT TRAINING AND SIMULATION CENTRE (EUROSIM)

The objective is to establish a tactical training and simulation hub, which through decentralised governance involving multi-national training capacities could integrate tactical training and simulation sites in Europe into a real-time, networked, connected system.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

The EUROSIM concept intends to fulfil the capability goals providing solution to missing capability in the field of multinational joint training and military exercises. It will contribute to a battalion-level training and above as well to raise the overall level of such trainings by exploiting and integrating existing, but geographically spread training sites into a networked training system. The prearranged integrated system ensures the EU Member States’ forces’ a concerted and harmonized training. The System can handle the structure of the various service branches of the military and also integrates with the systems of civil and non-military organizations (police, disaster relief, healthcare, cyber, NGO’s, counterterrorism). The establishing of the technical conditions is the most important cornerstone of the project. To have a real-time connection and communication between the dispersed simulation equipment, project members need to establish a protected, cloud-based network system based on the Modelling and Simulation as a Service (MSaaS) model of cloud computing, which is considered a very efficient approach for building next-generation simulation systems, which also provides a suitable digital environment for the application of EDTs.

EUROSIM MSaaS provides a framework that enables credible and effective M&S services available on-demand to a large number of users. The M&S Services available in an efficient and cost-effective way to provide the required level of agility to enable convenient and rapid integration of capabilities.

The technological architecture of the system is based on hybrid cloud technology formed from national, eu and NATO level clouds, into which integrated national, eu and NATO level Modelling and Simulation capabilities (infrastructures, software, platform and applications) are available through a digital platform (portal). The platform operates on standalone and federated mode as well.

Standalone operation mode (national cloud): This level indicates a stand-alone MSaaS Capability as national cloud: for example, the MSaaS Capabilty resides on a national and restricted network. At this level the MSaaS Capability only provides services to the national organizations.

Federated (allied) operation mode: At this level the MSaaS Capability has the ability to provide Simulation Services to and consume Simulation Services from another MSaaS Capability. The MSaaS Capability has the ability to participate in a federated “or/end” “a allied framework for MSaaS environment.

For easier project management and EDA Cat.B support’s request, the project was divided into two phases: Phase 1 and Phase 2. The first one includes all the preparatory work, notably market research, harmonisation of requirements, R&T activities and the development of strategic documents. The second one concentrates on the execution and the closing.

OBJECTIVES/PRODUCTS

The objective of the project is to establish a tactical Training and Simulation HUB, which, through decentralized governance, involving multi-national training capacities could integrate tactical training and simulation sites in Europe into a real-time, networked, and connected system, and also integrates with the systems of civil and non-military organizations (police, disaster relief, healthcare, cyber, NGO’s, counterterrorism). The EUROSIM Hub complex IT Central Infrastructure is based on a cloud service model: the role of edge computing is to distribute computation workload required for the simulation among the edge nodes and the central cloud, in order to maximize execution speed and minimize latency. EUROSIM should be build as an open system based on the Modeling and Simulation as a Service (MSaaS) model to allow connection of all national hubs individually without having to rely on a central service (mesh-functionality).