GERALDO MULATO DE LIMA FILHO received the B.Sc. degree in aeronautical science from the Air Force Academy (AFA), Brazil, in 2001, and the M.Sc. degree in science and space technologies from the Aeronautical Technology Institute (ITA), Brazil, in 2015, where he is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree. Besides, he has been working as a Pilot at the Brazilian Air Force (FAB), for over 20 years. His research interests include decision support systems, MAV/UAV cooperative engagement, computational optimization techniques, and applications of artificial intelligence methods.ANDRÉ ROSSI KUROSWISKI received the B.Sc. degree in aeronautical science from the Air Force Academy (AFA), Brazil, in 2004, and the B.Sc. degree in electronic engineering and the M.Sc. degree in science and space technologies from the Aeronautical Technology Institute (ITA), Brazil, in 2017 and 2019, respectively, where he is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree. Before engaging in research and development projects, flew for ten years in the Brazilian Air Force, carrying out various types of missions, from air defense, as a Fighter Pilot, to transport missions in support of Amazonian forest integration and protection, from 2002 to 2012. His research interests include modeling and simulation for aerospace scenarios analysis, autonomous agents, machine learning, and computational optimization.

The Aerospace Simulation Environment (Ambiente de Simulação Aeroespacial -ASA in Portuguese) is a custom-made objectoriented simulation framework developed mainly in C++ that enables the modeling and simulation of military operational scenarios to support the development of tactics and procedures in the aerospace context for the Brazilian Air Force. This work describes the ASA framework, bringing its distributed architecture for managing multiple simulation machines, a data analysis platform for post-processing simulation data, the capability of loading models at simulation runtime, and a batch mode execution platform to perform multiple independent executions simultaneously. In addition, we present a list of recent works using the ASA framework as a simulation tool in the air combat context.