JFORCES is a theater-level, joint operations, systems engineering and C4I simulation environment supporting a wide range of military scenarios. The first release of JFORCES was developed as the Air Defense Initiative Simulation for Command & Control Development, to support Rome Labs in order to examine alternative C3I concepts for air defense of the North American continent. Enhancements have been developed and delivered to the government that include the addition of unconventional intelligence sources and sensors into Theater Missile Defense scenarios involving SCUDs, mobile launchers and cruise missile threats, AWACs and JSTARS platforms, F-15s, SAMs, and other mission entities. It has performed executions at the platform level for Operation Desert Storm, J-8 Southwest Asia and Northeast Asia Major Theaters of War (MTW), and other theater-level joint force scenarios.
JFORCES is a government-owned simulation environment supporting a broad range of defense functions such as training and readiness, acquisition support, doctrine development, requirements definition and contingency planning. JFORCES is constructed around a message-passing executive supporting inter-process communication and network management interfaces for real-time, distributed, parallel processing. The JFORCES environment provides a robust set of analyst-oriented or operator-oriented interfaces for pre-simulation configuration, scenario generation, runtime controls and post-process analysis.
The JFORCES implementation is consistent with the DOD High-level Architecture and is capable of interfacing with virtual nodes using the DOD's Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS) Protocol. JFORCES ability to emulate real systems' internal and external message structures in format, content and rate of presentation, offers an off-the-shelf, low-overhead capability to integrate, constructive models, manned simulators and live systems in real-time executions without filters, interpreters or major data transformations.
JFORCES advanced scenario generation supports: