Synthetic Theater of War (STOW) Engineering Demonstration-1 (ED-1) Final Report

This report describes results of Engineering Demonstration-1 ED-1, which was conducted 17-20 October 1995. ED-l was conducted on both the Advanced Communication Technology Satellite ACTS, Asynchronous Transfer Mode ATM, Internetwork AAIAdvanced Technology Demonstration Network ATDNet and the Defense Simulation Internet DSI, over a period of 2 days. The Synthetic Environment demonstration portion of ED-1 successfully demonstrated the following environmental effects illumination flares, signal flares, and signal smoke dynamic time-of-day wind effects velocity and direction concertina wire battlefield smoke and obscurants minefield breaching antitank ditch breaching, dust storm, rain, fog, and haze pre-emplaced survivability positions and obstacles and multistate objects bridgesbuildings. The Synthetic Forces demonstration portion of ED-1 successfully demonstrated the following five ships-maneuvering and damage sensors and weapons functionality 18 new Marine Corps entity types embarkdisembark functionality suppressive fire attachment IFOR-FWA Defensive Air, CAS combined strike RWA-armed reconnaissance attack IFOR FWA reacted correctly to unexpected interactions FAC worked well bridges were destroyed, providing a barrier to ground vehicles tanks deployed smoke, changed speedformation when entering, leaving smoke screen FO-detected, classified, and reported company team commander receivedsent CCSIL messages plannedreplanned missions very stable.