ADVANCED HIGH AND LOW FIDELITY HPC SIMULATIONS OF FCS CONCEPT DESIGNS FOR DYNAMIC SYSTEMS

The Objective Force concept of the future US Army is to fight wars with adversaries, which are fast evolving and have adaptive capabilities. To have advantage over these adversaries, new weapon system designs and development should be modular to operate as "system-of-systems" and should have short development cycles. This requires validated high performance computational models within this modular framework and the need to effectively utilize the High Performance Computing (HPC) resources of many Army initiatives. In this paper we present a new and advanced HPC based rigid and flexible modeling and simulation technology capable of adaptive high/low fidelity modeling that is useful in the initial design concept stage to intermediate stages and to the final design stage in a single seamless simulation environment. Two examples are considered that illustrate the capabilities and scalability of the proposed approach.