+ News - 2001
RAM Laboratories Wins 700K Phase II SBIR Award With the Department of Defense (DOD)
San Diego, CA - April 4th, 2001 - RAM Laboratories, Inc. a small business focusing on modeling, simulation, and high performance computing applications is pleased to announce the award of a $700K Phase II SBIR contract with the Air Force Research Laboratory's Information Directorate at Rome Research Site. This contract award calls for the development of a state-of-the-art automated mixed resolution modeling (MRM) technology that facilitates simulation development over multiple degrees of resolution and fidelity. As such, this technology addresses a key problem in developing multi-disciplinary and collaborative simulations that has been faced by the defense simulation community for many years. "We in the DoD simulation community have a very real problem with legacy model reuse, integration and interoperability. Traditional ad hoc integration techniques have resulted in problems of mixed resolution, inconsistent assumptions and unvalidatable results. This effort should ameliorate those problems." said Alex Sisti, Technical Director for the Information Directorate's IFSB, C4ISR Modeling and Simulation Branch, when assessing this proposed technology.
The resultant technology will automatically assist the user in developing the necessary software wrappers to "resolve" information differences found across the model boundaries in any collaborative simulation. The technology will address both generic stand-alone models and software layer development and can be integrated within existing simulation frameworks such as the High Level Architecture (HLA) and the SPEEDES/CCSE (Synchronous Parallel Environment for Emulation and Discrete Event Simulation) Simulation Framework. The technology will be portable to a wide variety of hardware platforms and operating systems.
In addition to addressing the needs of DOD-based simulation projects, this technology will allow commercial companies to take advantage of legacy and third party simulation models over a variety of disciplines including the biomedical, transportation, electronic design automation, and banking industries.
"Programs are moving away from stove-piped simulations that target a specific application or problem and are moving toward joint or collaborative simulations that examine a diverse application space across multiple disciplines. This technology facilitates the process of building these multi-disciplinary simulations." said Dr. Richard A. MacDonald, President/CEO of RAM Laboratories, Inc.
RAM Laboratories, located in San Diego, CA, is also deeply involved with the development of software to support high performance computing applications, artificial intelligence and network analysis. Most notable among these efforts is the development of the SPEEDES/CCSE Simulation Framework to address parallel and distributed computing applications. RAM Laboratories development using SPEEDES/CCSE has involved a variety of DOD programs including the Joint Simulation System (JSIMS), the Joint Modeling And Simulation System (JMASS), the Extended Air Defense Test Bed (EADTB), and the High Performance Computing and Modernization Program (HPCMP).
RAM Laboratories, Inc. provides the highest performance available for simulation services across a wide variety of platforms, operating systems and development environments. For more information on any of these cutting-edge technologies.