Modelling and Simulation as a Service – an Emergent Concept that Supports the Military Education and Training Process Continuity

Abstract

In the last years, the NATO Modelling and Simulation Group (NMSG) has started to develop and put into practice an emergent concept named “Modelling and Simulation as a Service” (MSaaS) with the purpose to provide a permanent service and cloud-based modelling and simulation (M&S) ecosystem to be used by NATO and partner nations. The new M&S ecosystem will help to project and expand the ways of using M&S capabilities for achieving interoperability between participating simulation systems and ensuring credibility of results. This paper presents, on one hand, the development phases of MSaaS, the benefits and steps that have to be done in the future for its implementation at NATO level, and on the other hand, it makes an extrapolation between business continuity concept and MSaaS concept in terms of ensuring the military education and training process continuity when a crisis situation occurs.

Fostering Digital Transformations in Military Engineering Education: Introduction of a Technology-Enhanced Learning Environment

“…The findings showed that digital tools implemented within military engineering training vary depending on the purpose of their use. The literature review revealed that digital tools used in military engineering training include communication tools (Miron & Gherman, 2022;Porancea-Răulea et al, 2023;Ramesh, 2023); content creation tools (Banday et al, 2014;Chen et al, 2019;Udeozor et al, 2023); LMS (Bradley, 2021;Vakaliuk, 2021); collaboration tools (Ramesh, 2023;Udeozor et al, 2023); assessment tools (Farzana, 2023;Porancea-Răulea et al, 2023); simulation and modelling tools (Chen, 2021;Coman et al, 2021); and adaptive learning tools (Barto & Daly, 2021;Duzhyi & Derkach, 2024). Considerable research work was paid towards the analysis of the effectiveness of digital tools (Chen et al, 2019;Spridzāns, 2023).…”