Project Urban Resolve: Urban Warfare Simulation

The United States Joint Forces Command (JFCOM) has among its many missions the requirement to conduct joint experimentation for the Department of Defense. Currently JFCOM, in collaboration with the Joint Advanced Warfighting Program at the Institute for Defense Analyses, is conducting a three year series of experiments called Urban Resolve, which will explore, in a Human-in-the-Loop experiment, Joint Urban Operations. Just as the conduct of joint urban operations is actually among the most difficult form of combat operations, simulation of urban warfare is equally among the most challenging. A major goal of Urban Resolve is to advance the simulation capability as it applies to urban combat. This briefing, and demonstration, will outline the goals of Urban Resolve; describe the simulation architecture, discuss challenges associated with modeling complex urban environment, and mention the contributions of the various federates included in the JSAF Federation (the core simulation for this experiment). The JSAF Federation will include; a million-building-terrain data base with 65,000 building interiors; JSAF "Clutter" which will be used to simulate the civilian population in the Jakarta region; and we will discuss the role of the Scaleable Parallel Processors (SPP), from Maui (MHPCC) and Wright Patterson Air Force base (ASC) recently added to the architecture to provide the computer power necessary for the scale and resolution of this event. This partnership with the HPCMO and specifically the Forces Modeling (FMS) community will be highlighted and challenges and accomplishments will be reported.