NATO Modelling and Simulation Group 131 (“Modelling and Simulation as a Service: New concepts and Service Oriented Architectures”) did a first survey on the topic of “M&S as a Service” and provided collective knowledge and experience of a dozen nations and NATO bodies to ACT. Based on this survey and extensive experiences from developing a service-oriented reference architecture for a distributed integrated test bed for the German Federal Office of Bundeswehr Equipment, Information Technology and In-Service Support (BAAINBw), this paper outlines a service-based reference architecture for effective and efficient use of M&S.

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This paper shows how the requirements for the next generation of simulation environments are addressed within the proposed reference architecture. The paper also shows the relations between the proposed reference architecture and the NATO M&S Master Plan and identifies missing but required standards. Finally it identifies potential follow-on activities and gives recommendations for possible standardization activities.

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