Decision Support Systems - An Overview of Ongoing German Efforts

Simulation systems currently in use to train the military personnel in the German Army in computer assisted exercises (CAX) have originally been designed to cover the scenarios of the cold war. Although recently effort has been made to model successfully scenarios like of the task force detached in former Yugoslavia using this systems, there are still other challenges to be solved in order to meet high-end standards of interoperability, modular architecture and VVA • the Study Decision Support Tools II yield results for data mediation, demonstrated the advantages of a common data model and combined several COTS-products; • the German artillery extends their DS ability by developing automated forces in order to support the planning process on the division level. In summary, this paper is dealing with the conceptual requirements for decision support systems to military operations, technical prerequisites and examples of completed and currently conducted studies in this context.