CIVIL-MILITARY SIMULATION AND ANALYSIS ROLANDS & ASSOCIATES Corporation SETTING THE STANDARD OF EXCELLENCE A Message From the President R&A was established with a focus on the design, development, and support of modeling and simulation (M&S) applications. Our primary mission has been to sustain our prominence as a company that emphasizes the quality of both our work and our staff’s working environment. These two aspects are essential for maintaining our delivery of efficient, quality services. The requirement for quality and professional ethics established in our M&S delivery strategy has promoted the controlled growth of R&A. It is with great pride that I point to R&A’s Guiding Principles, which influence all of our management and engineering decisions as we work to achieve our mission. They have allowed us to create a corporate culture that rewards innovation, supports our staff, provides effective and individualized solutions for our clients, and adds positive value to the ever-changing M&S community. Sincerely, Ronald J. Roland, Ph.D. President R&A’s Guiding Principles • Set the standard of excellence in cost-effective, • Encourage multi-disciplinary collaboration high quality M&S delivery and maintenance among staff and clients to nurture personal, • Establish mutually supportive arrangements professional, and ethical relationships with other M&S practitioners and with clients • Encourage active participation of employees, who have M&S needs teaming partners, consultants, and • Create a customer-centric environment in subcontractors which an active, open dialogue allows the • Respond to the needs of our clients and serve Company to fully understand and be responsive as a unique resource to the M&S community to its clients’ requirements • Provide a workplace that supports technical innovation Table of Contents 1 INTRODUCTION 4 APPLIED M&S 6 THE MARKET SPACE 8 THE R&A TEAM 11 TESTIMONIALS AND RECOGNITION Started in 1982... ... by Dr. Ronald J. and Ellen F. Roland, Problem Space processors that can manage applications ROLANDS & ASSOCIATES Corporation (R&A) is World leaders have growing needs to process, on-demand, and over protected networks. a business dedicated to designing, developing, visualize, make readable, understand, and and supporting a single simulation application deploy complex models that use immense From theory to experimentation to the of exceptional quality. Established long before amounts of data. These leaders must development of standards and advanced the term Modeling and Simulation—or M&S— transform data into valid hypotheses on methodologies, R&A is continually pushing the was coined, R&A created, tested, delivered, which critical decisions are based; be able to envelope of available technologies. Computing and supported a simulation in accordance with quickly change their scenarios in response power and storage in heterogeneous specific requirements established by the U.S. to new hypotheses; and work with multiple, environments, resource virtualization, Joint Forces. highly specialized coalition experts based in services consumed on demand with minimal geographically distant areas. limitation for resource location, power issues, Today, R&A’s extensive knowledge and history miniaturizing, and massive datasets are all in M&S allow the Company to optimize an considered. The Company’s simulation tools ever-growing number of operational and Value Outcome harness best of breed capabilities, which are decision support requirements, and effectively In response to these needs R&A clients have carefully selected or developed to provide tailor its product so clients have the necessary selected us to provide and support them with cost-effective and time-sensitive solutions. data to make informed decisions. This current a capability to manage and evaluate their client geography manifests itself from the operational oriented decision environment Solution Space non-governmental organizations (NGOs), with efficient and effective tools and The currently proposed solutions for informing through civil agencies into the governments procedures. They know that R&A produces leadership at the operational level of throughout the world. R&A has become a software architectures that are highly efficient, management and command include either trusted partner supporting civil, military, and versatile, and compatible with current individual simulations for specific application defense programs around the world. technologies, such as cloud and grid computing, areas, such as space, land, naval, and air forces, web-based and distributed access, ubiquitous or coalitions of simulations married with 1 a variety of unique/individual integration processes. As the number of different tools in a coalition increases, the cost and complexity of the final solution also increase exponentially. Consequentially, R&A strives to exceed each client’s expectations by becoming the size of the enterprise increases, adding to the product delivery closely acquainted with the client and fostering relationships schedule and cost. that allow the client to meet its goals. This relationship translates into: R&A is positioned to directly address its clients’ individual needs, and promptly adjust deliverables as those needs change. A solution is CLIENT DEFINES: submitted herein to efficiently and effectively meet this need. The DECISION ENVIRONMENT Company is aware that future M&S solutions may embrace advances in AI, Machine Learning, Big Data, and Neural Networks. We are R&A PROVIDES: proud of our history of providing a high quality product that is built DECISION SUPPORT to the clients’ specifications and requirements, and that include individually tailored services, such as customizations, training, CLIENT DEFINES: installed databases, and special reports. The Company has met all SUBJECTIVE CRITERIA performance objectives and critical requirements in its government R&A PROVIDES: and commercial contracts. R&A consistently provides contract OBJECTIVE RELATIONSHIPS deliverables on or ahead of schedule and within budget. Our research will determine whether and when to introduce new technologies, but CLIENT DEFINES: until then, our goal is to meet the client’s needs, today. GENERAL SCENARIO R&A PROVIDES: DETAILED LAYDOWN "We believe in CLIENT DEFINES: LIMITED BUDGET providing the highest R&A PROVIDES: COST-EFFECTIVE DESIGN quality possible in AND IMPLEMENTATION everything we design and develop." 2 What is M&S? Modeling and Simulation (M&S), as defined in Wikipedia, refers to an important field of engineering in which mathematics, probabilities, and statistics are used to explore what might happen in a hypothetical scenario. R&A’s premier M&S product, Joint Theater Level Simulation-Global Operations (JTLS-GO®), provides senior government and business leadership with a better understanding of how various civil-military, humanitarian, and disaster situations can play out in their communities, thus allowing them to anticipate and prepare for multiple possibilities. 3 Applied M&S The Joint Theater Level Simulation-Global Among Other Attributes, User Experience Operations, otherwise known as JTLS-GO®, JTLS-GO: JTLS-GO is an interactive simulation that is R&A’s exclusive M&S product. This highly • Accounts for the changing modalities of allows its users to make decisions about the sophisticated and adaptable simulation models warfare management of processes and entities. The civil and military decision-making environments • Simulates air, land, maritime, space, Simulation’s success is partially based on from a globally integrated, operational-level intelligence, logistics, and special providing access to apply specific and individual perspective. JTLS-GO empowers users with the operations, as well as civilian and other tactics, techniques, and procedures, and to information they need to plan, program, budget, non-combatant forces receive and respond to the Simulation’s and inform policies in the context of national • May be configured and scaled to examine user-friendly interface. It is no surprise that R&A civil-military and humanitarian endeavors. joint tasks, operations, functions, and has made usability an important component of missions at the operational levels of civil- its ongoing efforts to improve JTLS-GO. R&A began development of JTLS-GO in 1983 as a military engagements • JTLS-GO does not require programming project funded by the U.S. Readiness Command, • Recognizes relevant terrain, weapons, knowledge to operate it effectively the U.S. Army Concepts Analysis Agency, and movement, attrition, unit characteristics, • The Simulation is web-enabled, allowing the U.S. Army War College. The Simulation was ​​ and Time-Phased Force Deployment Data users to access it wherever there is originally designed as a tool for developing and as input internet access analyzing joint and combined operations plans. • Provides clients with reusable input • The Web Hosted Interface Program (WHIP) R&A has spent the past 35 years fine-tuning the modules and gives them the option of conforms to IEEE Internationalization model’s data structures, improving usability, and working with R&A to develop their own Standards, allowing users to deploy and expanding its capabilities. unique scenarios and databases interface with the Simulation in their • Is well suited for FEMA applications in native languages Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HA/DR) scenarios 4 Humanitarian Assistance & Disaster Relief Availability JTLS-GO is used to simulate more than just civil-military operations.