Defence R&D Canada – Valcartier develops and implements information systems architectures and design techniques, information management systems and devices, experimental results and decision support tools to improve the efficiency of the decision-making cycle, and simulation environments including hardware systems.

Capabilities

• Information and Knowledge Management
• System of Systems (SoS)
• Decision Support Systems

Advances in systems of systems, combined with a rich experimentation framework, contribute to the exploration of innovative concepts and technologies for expanding operational capabilities of the Canadian Forces. Consideration is given to military users, analysts and developers as they interact with operational and experimental SoS across a variety of environments and command levels.

Metrics and Experimentation

Investigation, definition and improvement of the metrics and methodologies required to improve SoS experimentation. Assessments of utility, performance and effectiveness allow for an evaluation of complex SoS in an experimental context, while methodologies may cover issues ranging from user requirements to system integration in support of the development of future warfare concepts and technologies.Experimentation, through the building of a reliable knowledge base, reduces uncertainties and guides innovations in theories, methods and tools. A rich experimentation and assessment framework will contribute to the exploration of innovative concepts and technologies for expanding operational capabilities of the Canadian Forces.

System Engineering & Architecture

Investigation, definition and improvement of techniques, modelling tools and strategies supporting elaboration of software architecture for complex systems; assesment and elaboration of model-driven approaches to address the assembling complexity of heterogeneous system of systems. These works aim at reducing development time in order to give military operations, in particular joint and coalition ones, easier access to a better interoperability between systems in usage.

Distributed Synthetic Environment

Investigation and improvement of distributed simulation technologies and interoperability between systems and simulation environments to advance experimentation. Distributed simulation technologies and environments are exploited and evaluated to support the complexity of system-of-systems experimentation. Interoperability is required to ensure that both operational and experimental systems of systems can be properly integrated into the simulation environments to facilitate concept development, training and mission rehearsal.

Computer Solutions and Experimentation

In scientific and experimental activities by the provision of expertise and computing services of software engineering and development, project management and computer support. Diverse expertise is available in order to contribute efficiently to innovation efforts in the domain of system of systems for command and control.