1 00:00:00,058 --> 00:00:04,461 we're really often asked, what is the big thing about interoperability? 2 00:00:04,461 --> 00:00:07,463 First, it's a word that is super complex for a French person to pronounce. 3 00:00:07,463 --> 00:00:15,733 but aside from that, when you have successfully achieved speaking that word and saying it correctly, why is important in there? 4 00:00:15,733 --> 00:00:17,077 Well, there are a couple of factors. 5 00:00:17,077 --> 00:00:24,913 And you need to look at the global view of the evolution of these simulation tools that we use every day. 6 00:00:25,279 --> 00:00:35,664 We talked about the silos, we talked about the fact that you had either accurate or good looking in the ancient time of simulation. 7 00:00:35,664 --> 00:00:44,928 You also had three big silos between live, virtual and constructive simulations that were requiring different type of tools. 8 00:00:45,228 --> 00:00:51,601 And these different type of tools had different capabilities in different type of exercises and had different... 9 00:00:51,611 --> 00:00:53,432 roles in the ecosystem. 10 00:00:53,553 --> 00:00:59,272 Some tools were experts at building sensor data model. 11 00:00:59,272 --> 00:01:05,517 Some others were experts at assessing the ballistic success of an operation. 12 00:01:05,517 --> 00:01:07,884 And some others were moving a lot of pawns on a map. 13 00:01:07,884 --> 00:01:12,407 These tools, which all of them had their own specialties, and historically, 14 00:01:12,407 --> 00:01:13,868 They were not connected together, right? 15 00:01:13,868 --> 00:01:15,558 So we had to glue them together. 16 00:01:15,558 --> 00:01:16,979 And these glues were ugly. 17 00:01:16,979 --> 00:01:21,681 We had to build new glues for new programs and new glues for new projects. 18 00:01:21,681 --> 00:01:23,792 And it was really painful for the developers. 19 00:01:23,792 --> 00:01:30,895 Over the years, the community created a way to have the systems to talk to each other. 20 00:01:31,015 --> 00:01:34,717 A little bit like in the real world between the nations. 21 00:01:34,717 --> 00:01:40,019 When we go to operations together, we invented new ways to communicate together. 22 00:01:40,047 --> 00:01:46,689 to have the same ways to understand each other's doctrines, to understand each other's comms. 23 00:01:46,689 --> 00:01:55,031 Well, what happened in the real world, this interoperability of systems, we reproduce in the simulation world, right? 24 00:01:55,031 --> 00:01:58,592 We have interoperability of simulation systems. 25 00:01:58,752 --> 00:02:07,843 What it means is that we have these different tools that become federated into a global world, and this federation, this global world, 26 00:02:07,883 --> 00:02:14,676 is allowing all the systems to speak the same language even if they don't come from the same vendor, from the same provider, right? 27 00:02:14,676 --> 00:02:26,411 So you can have a software created somewhere in Turkey talking super well with a software developed somewhere in Czech Republic talking super well to a software created in the UK. 28 00:02:26,791 --> 00:02:35,946 And all these tools, they talk together without having to have the owners of these tools to agree on something before. 29 00:02:35,960 --> 00:02:39,841 they all support the same interoperability protocol. 30 00:02:39,841 --> 00:02:42,802 That's why they're so important, these protocols. 31 00:02:43,082 --> 00:02:55,225 The words interoperability protocols that we use in simulation are inspired from the real life, from the real needs of operations when we decide to work together. 32 00:02:55,225 --> 00:02:57,046 That's simply what it means. 33 00:02:57,086 --> 00:03:05,848 And nowadays, with the strong push that we see to break the silos, the historical silos that we had, 34 00:03:05,848 --> 00:03:14,142 between live, virtual and constructive, this need to communicate and to work together better is more important than ever.