Military Open Simulator Enterprise Strategy

Military Open Simulator Enterprise Strategy (MOSES) is a U.S. Army project evaluating the ability of OpenSimulator to provide independent and secured access to a virtual world.^[1]

MOSES is a research project of the United States Army Simulation and Training Technology Center (STTC), led by Science and Technology Manager Douglas Maxwell. STTC's Virtual World Strategic Applications team uses applications such as OpenSimulator to augment existing U.S. Army virtual trainers to add capability and flexibility during training scenarios.^[2]

MOSES debuted March 22, 2011 at the Defense GameTech Users Conference in Orlando, Florida.^[3] MOSES was made open to non-U.S. Army researchers, including enterprise, university, Air Force and Navy, to encourage sharing of content creation and testing.^[2]

MOSES' initial goals were met 4th quarter 2012, namely using open source software to:

• Provide a stable virtual environment, with
• Content portability (able to be moved to other grids),
• Low cost (no licensing fees), and
• Guidelines for use (documentation).^[3]

MOSES' effort continues on additional goals including

• Linking with other grids with secured, encrypted communications, and
• Larger scale user support.^[1]

See also

• Military simulation
• RDECOM
• Not to be confused with Meta Operating System & Entity Shell (MOSES) early 1990s Virtual Reality project associated with University of Washington's Human Interface Technology Lab (HITL).

References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Welcome to MOSES, official web site home page
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Army extends MOSES to other researchers, Hypergrid Business, 21 May 2011
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Military grid hits performance goals, Hypergrid Business, 26 November 2012