AFI16-1005 governs Air Force modeling and simulation management, including policy, governance, architecture, data exposure, and workforce functions.
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It establishes an Air Force M&S governance structure and aligns M&S under operational training, integrated life cycle management, and decision support. It requires visibility, accessibility, reuse, interoperability, metadata management, standards use, and appropriate M&S workforce tracking.
Applies to: It applies to all AF activities using M&S.
M&S management shall develop plans, programs, procedures, issuances, and pursue common and cross-cutting M&S tools, data, and services to achieve DoD’s goals by: promoting visibility and accessibility of models and simulations; leading, guiding, and shepherding investments in M&S; assisting collaborative research, development, acquisition, and operation of models and simulations; maximizing commonality, reuse, interoperability, sustainment, efficiencies and effectiveness of M&S, and supporting DoD communities that are enabled by M&S. (paragraph 2)
The AF shall reference the DoD M&S discovery metadata search capability when assessing existing M&S assets for reuse. (paragraph 3)
Open, net-centric, interoperable standards shall be used to achieve an integrated operational architecture that is a scalable and interoperable M&S system of systems that allows for efficient interoperability within the AF and with other DoD components. (paragraph 8)
AF M&S discovery metadata will comply with AFI 33-115 guidance and will also be discoverable, searchable, and retrievable using the DoD M&S discovery metadata search capability except where security classification precludes exposure. (paragraph 8)
In cases where AF M&S data discovery policy appears to conflict with operational data discovery policy, the operations policy shall always take precedence for compliance. (paragraph 8)