3 September 1991

Thales Systems Canada Inc. (Thales Systems) is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a contract by the Department of Supply and Services to develop a sophisticated Anti-Air Warfare (AAW) Simulator for the Defence Research Establishment at Valcartier, Quebec (DREV). The AAW Simulator will provide a framework for modelling naval AAW systems as well as for modelling the combat environments in which the AAW systems operate. The modelling of AAW systems will encompass sensor and weapon components as well as air defence processes including Sensor Data Fusion, Threat Evaluation and Weapon Assignment (TEWA), Weapons Coordination, and overall Force Battle Management. In order to support a goal of AAW systems evaluation and development, the Simulator will provide the following attributes:

· mechanisms to flexibly configure experiments,

· mechanisms to generate data for analysis, and

· an evolutionary capability to meet medium/long term simulation goals.

Other features of the AAW Simulator, to be developed in Smalltalk 80, include a user-friendly Man-Machine Interface (MMI) as well as the capability to selectively log data. Although the object-oriented design/programming paradigm was selected to define its structure, the simulator will be based upon a synergism of software techniques including expert system and conventional procedural languages. In particular, a TEWA expert system module developed by Thales Systems under a previous contract with DREV will be integrated within the simulator environment.