Brunei simulation center to use COTS tools from Presagis

Posted by John McHale
COLOGNE, Germany, 11 May 2011. CAE will be using commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) modeling and simulation software and services from Presagis for the National Modeling and Simulation Centre (NMSC) for Brunei Darussalam’s for the Ministry of Defense (MOD).
This facility will be used by the Royal Brunei armed forces and MOD to analyze force structure options, evaluate and validate capabilities, develop doctrine and tactics, and support training and mission rehearsal exercises. CAE is the prime contractor responsible for the design, development, and delivery a turnkey and fully integrated NMSC.
"We expect reduce the overall time-to-market in delivering Brunei's NMSC through use of the Presagis pre-integrated suite of COTS products," says Aldofo Klassen, CAE's chief technology officer. "Off-the-shelf tools based on industry standards will help reduce the time and expense associated with designing, integrating, and testing various applications while also allowing the NMSC to benefit from the ability to retain the flexibility to easily adapt and update the simulation infrastructure in future."
"This world class modeling and simulation center is an example of how COTS tools can be leveraged to enable our customers to meet their application requirements faster and with significant savings," says Guillaume Herve, president, Presagis. "Our customers have a common need to cut development costs and time to market, and to be able to focus their engineering talent on innovative application development."
The Presagis suite of integrated off-the-shelf products, including, STAGE, Vega Prime, Terra Vista, Creator, and SIM OneNet, will form the foundation for the NMSC's Simulation Software Infrastructure. The tools provide CAE with modeling and simulation capabilities, including 3D modeling, terrain generation, scenario development, artificial intelligence, and visualization, for the generation and execution of complex scenarios for experimentation, training, and analysis by the NMSC.