Synthetic Theater of War (STOW)
The success Raytheon Virtual Technology Corporation (Raytheon VTC) enjoys today can be traced directly to a few crucial factors that differentiate our work in the industry. One of those factors is our people. We believe our people are the best and the brightest in our industry and are the key to our customer's success. By allowing their creative genius to drive our solutions and supporting technologies, we provide our customers with real solutions to their hardest challenges. Part of what makes our people the best is their understanding of distributed system technologies and comprehensive knowledge of how to apply them. Our experts have been engaged in the area of distributed systems technologies since its inception, working to support pioneering efforts with organizations like Defense Modeling and Simulation Office (DMSO) and Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), providing many of the interoperability concepts and technologies in use today.
One such challenging distributed simulation effort involved support for the U.S. Atlantic Command (USACOM) on DARPA's STOW Program. SAIC led the effort and depended on Raytheon VTC engineers for the design and implementation of the STOW Simulation Infrastructure (SI), Data Collection and Playback, After-Action Reporting (AAR), and Simulation and Infrastructure Analysis. Raytheon VTC developed the STOW SI to create a generic set of facilities to provide the services required by diverse simulation domain applications. The challenge was to define a scalable data collection architecture capable of supporting large exercises and able to incorporate data collectors without impacting collection, playback, or AAR during large-scale exercises. The large amounts of data and high data rates anticipated during the STOW events, coupled with unique requirements for database support of playback and AAR during the exercise, required the conception and implementation of a number of innovative design ideas. Raytheon VTC's development strategy yielded an extremely high degree of reuse and reduced the development time. At the time, STOW was the largest ongoing Advanced Concept Technical Demonstration (ACTD) employing the High-Level Architecture (HLA) Runtime Infrastructure (RTI) to achieve interoperability among diverse distributed simulations. Raytheon VTC continues to provide expert distributed simulation support for the STOW program today.
"I wanted to write this to tell you how pleased I am with the contributions of the Raytheon VTC people on the STOW program. All five individuals are extremely productive, helpful, courteous, and are making major contributions to the STOW effort. Without a doubt, we would not be able to perform on STOW without the contributions of Raytheon VTC personnel. They have saved the STOW infrastructure effort, and for that I will always be in your debt. Such a quick turnaround delivering such high-quality and competent people enabled us to perform the task we set out to with relative ease." |
