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Geospatial Battle Management Language: Bridging GIS, C2 and Simulations
Track: Defense and Intelligence
Author(s): Martin Kleiner, Scott Carey, Eric Nielsen, Harland Yu, Burhman Gates, Michael Altenau, John Roberts

The Command and Control (C2) of military forces now relies primarily on digital systems. Battle Management Language (BML) is the unambiguous language used to command and control forces and equipment conducting military operations and to provide for situational awareness (SA) and a shared, common operational picture.

Terrain and weather effects represent fundamental aspects of the battlefield supporting SA and the decision-making processes within the C2 domain. Geospatial Battle Management Language (geoBML) is an extension of BML into the domain of actionable geospatial information and provides a semantic and syntactic bridge between the terrain experts' realm and the Warfighter's decision-making and SA needs.

Current geoBML development efforts incorporating C2, GIS and supporting simulation systems have highlighted significant issues and potential solutions that arise with operations planned using real-world terrain data and executed within a Modeling and Simulation (M&S) environment utilizing virtual representations of terrain and weather.

Martin Kleiner
George Mason University/ USACE TEC
Center for C4I
5415 A. Sever St.
Ft. Dix, NJ 08640
US
Phone: 609 723 2150
E-mail: mkleiner@gmu.edu

Scott Carey
George Mason University
4400 University Drive
Fairfax, VA 22030
US
Phone: 703-993-9330
E-mail: scarey2@gmu.edu

Eric Nielsen
Tech Projects, LLC
9040 South Rita Road
Suite 1157
Tucson, AZ 85701
US
Phone: 520-249-5305
E-mail: enielsen@techprojectsllc.com

Harland Yu
U.S. Army Engineer Reserach and Development Center
Topographic Engineering Center
7701 Telegraph Road
Alexandria, VA 22315
US
Phone: 703-428-6798
E-mail: harland.yu@erdc.usace.army.mil

Burhman Gates
U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center
Geotechnical and Structures Laboratory
3909 Halls Ferry Road
Vicksburg, MS 39180
US
Phone: 0076016343200
E-mail: burhman.Q.Gates@erdc.usace.army.mil

Michael Altenau
Viecore FSD, Inc.
6G Industrial Way West
Eatontown, NJ 07724
US
Phone: 732-544-1760
E-mail: maltenau@viecorefsd.com

John Roberts
Atlantic Consulting Services, Inc.
167 Avenue at the Commons
Shrewsbury, NJ 07702
US
Phone: 732-460-9419
E-mail: jroberts@acsinc-nj.com